Sentences with phrase «mexican totoaba»

Fish nets set for the endangered Mexican totoaba (being held) are also snaring and killing the vaquita, a critically endangered porpoise.

Not exact matches

Unfortunately, vaquitas continue to die in totoaba nets despite the valiant efforts by law enforcement agencies, the Mexican Navy, and conservation groups to prevent illegal fishing since the gillnet ban came into effect in April 2015, immediately before the new acoustic and visual studies were launched.

Those results suggest that even if the Mexican government put a halt to today's profitable totoaba poaching (a swim bladder can go for $ 14,000 on the black market), the species would still struggle to survive in the gulf's radically altered environment.

Dried swim bladders from a large endangered Mexican fish, the totoaba, for sale in Guangshou, China.

The Mexican government banned all fishing for totoaba (Totoaba macdonaldi) in 1975, but illegal fishing persists.