Sentences with phrase «gillnet ban»

While Mexico's gillnet ban is an important step forward in vaquita conservation, it will be unlikely to prevent extinction of the species unless there is a lasting commitment to rigorous enforcement to stop illegal fishing.

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.

«This is the first large - scale gillnet ban to save a species from extinction, and includes provisions for the development of alternative fishing gear to replace gillnets,» said Barbara Taylor, chair of the Society's Conservation Committee, who recently returned from more than two months aboard a research ship surveying the northern Gulf of California for vaquita.

Additionally, the Mexican government implemented a financial compensation program to provide income to fishermen affected by the two - year gillnet ban.

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In June of 2017, the ban on gillnet fishing was made permanent.

An international team of scientists says that the critically endangered vaquita, a species of porpoise (Phocoena sinus) found only in Mexico's Gulf of California, is fast approaching extinction and that all gillnet fishing in the animal's range must be banned.

Having declined over 90 per cent in just 20 years, the vaquita continues to plummet toward extinction despite a two - year ban on gillnet fishing that began in May 2015, as well as surveillance efforts by Mexico's government, environmental authorities and military.

-- Mexico will make permanent a ban on the use of gillnets in all fisheries throughout the range of the vaquita in the upper Gulf of California;