«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.
-- Both countries will redouble efforts, in collaboration with international experts, to develop alternative fishing
gear to
gillnets that does not result in the entanglement of vaquita and establish «vaquita - safe» fisheries;