Sentences with phrase «totoaba nets»
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.
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The totoaba's spawning grounds coincide closely with vaquita habitat, and fish poachers often snag porpoises in illicit nets.
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.
Some totoaba fishermen appear to have hidden among those boats, or some corvina boats set out nets for totoaba as well.
Fish nets set for the endangered Mexican totoaba (being held) are also snaring and killing the vaquita, a critically endangered porpoise.
The vaquita's plight is linked to that of another endangered species, a large croaker, the totoaba, which has been aggressively, and illegally, netted in Mexico for its swim bladder, which is worth huge sums in illicit Asian and online markets.
The illegal gill - net fishing of totoaba in the northern Gulf of California is causing the vaquita's perilous decline.