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An exclusive investigation shows how Mexican authorities are allowing lucrative illegal totoaba fishing to continue unpunished

How a community-based fishery program is bringing sustainability to Mexico’s Upper Gulf of California , catch monitor, Golfo de Santa Clara, Mexico For me, the ocean means hope. As a child, one of the things I enjoyed most was going with my grandfather to seafood processing plants where I would watch many women working. I also cherish the image of going out to sea with my father and coming home with the panga (skiff) full of fish that we would later clean and sell as a family. In other words, the ocean has given us everything: wealth, belonging and spiritual strength. Today, I am a mother ...

For Immediate Release, April 1, 2021 Contact: Marjorie Fishman, Animal Welfare Institute, (202) 446-2128, margie@awionline.org Kari Birdseye, NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council), (415) 875-8243, kbirdseye@nrdc.org Clare Perry, Environmental Investigation Agency, +34664348821, clareperry@eia-international.org Global Leaders Urged to Sanction Mexico to Save Critically Endangered Porpoises With 10 Vaquita Remaining, Mexico Pushed to Halt Illegal Fishing WASHINGTON — In a series of letters delivered today, conservation groups urged the United States and internation...

From above, the Sea of Cortez is a picture of serenity: turquoise waters lapping against rose-tinted bluffs and soft sand beaches. But down below, beneath the water’s surface, a war is raging.

In the fight to save the vaquita, conservationists take on cartels The critically endangered vaquita porpoise, a species endemic to the Sea of Cortez in the Upper Gulf of California in Mexico, is at severe risk of extinction due to illegal gillnet fishing for the critically endangered totoaba fish. Andrea Crosta of Earth League International (ELI) says the key to saving the species is arresting all criminals involved in the illegal totoaba trade, while other NGOs work to patrol the Sea of Cortez for illegal gillnet use or to introduce seafood sanctions. With only nine vaquita porpoises believ...