Sentences with phrase «totoaba fishing»

«Everybody knows that there has always been some totoaba fishing.

A surge in illegal totoaba fishing, undermining of compensation schemes and resistance to the use of the smart fishing gear are all contributing to the vaquita's demise and create the need for a fisheries closure with stringent, year - round enforcement.

Not exact matches

Despite strong enforcement, illegal gillnets are still being set to catch an endangered fish known as totoaba, the swim bladders of which fetch large sums of money on Hong Kong and Chinese black markets.

But with the totoaba's swim bladder fetching tens of thousands of dollars on the black market in China, the fishing has continued apace.

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.

The totoaba's spawning grounds coincide closely with vaquita habitat, and fish poachers often snag porpoises in illicit nets.

The most pressing existential threat to the vaquita is poaching — not of the porpoises themselves, but of a fish called the totoaba, whose bladders earn up to $ 20,000 apiece in China.

«In addition to a fishing ban, Mexico, the United States, and China need to take urgent and coordinated action to stop the illegal fishing, trafficking and consumption of totoaba.»

Archaeologists studying totoaba bones from Rancho Punta Estrella — a site in Baja California occupied by humans 10,000 years ago and then again 5000 years ago — used a special bone from the fish's inner ear, called an otolith, to help them reconstruct the totoaba's early environment.

Such a ban will also make enforcement of the existing legal restrictions on fishing for totoaba, as gill nets could be found without going to sea.

Generally, traders were aware that totoaba sales are illegal, knew the fish are only found in Mexico and claimed that smuggling the contraband between Hong Kong and mainland China is easy with customs agencies not routinely inspecting fish maw consignments.

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

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

In May 2015, EIA conducted a survey of 23 fish maw retailers in Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China, as well as online research to ascertain the availability of illegal totoaba products on the market.

-- Both countries will increase cooperation and enforcement efforts to immediately halt the illegal fishing for and illegal trade in totoaba swim bladders;

The illegal gill - net fishing of totoaba in the northern Gulf of California is causing the vaquita's perilous decline.

The report also focused on an issue I've written on periodically — how the vaquita death rate has been driven up by unrelenting Chinese demand for the dried swim bladder of the totoaba, a large endangered fish found in the same waters.

The pair attribute the sharp drop largely to what Rojas - Bracho called a «fever to fish totoaba.»

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