so totoaba fishing continues—as do the deaths of vaquitas as bycatch. In 2005 Mexico’s government made part of the gulf a vaquita refuge. But the population kept falling—from more than 200 ...

As a result, vaquita entanglements—as well as totoaba bycatch—continued to be a problem, and in 1993, Mexico's President Carlos Salinas declared the Upper Gulf of California to be a Biosphere Reserve.

At least three vaquita were found dead in the spring of 2016 ... While these nets tend not to result in bycatch of vaquitas, the exception provided illegal fishers with access to the totoaba fishing ...

Without massive conservation efforts put into place soon, this endangered marine mammal will likely not make it to the end of the decade.

The Center is also working to save the critically endangered vaquita porpoise, a species with only about 50 animals remaining, from fishing nets in the Gulf of California, and we've advocated to stop ...

FEEDING: Vaquitas feed on squid, crabs, and small, bottom-dwelling fish. They are believed to be non-selective feeders. THREATS: In imminent danger of extinction, the vaquita population is threatened ...