A dried totoaba swim bladder. (Photo courtesy of EIA ... And between 2022 and 2023, they quintupled. The vaquita and totoaba are both protected by Appendix I of the Convention on International ...

Any tourist activity that involves getting close to their habitat can stress the animals and disrupt their natural behavior.

Totoaba swim bladders are illegally exported to Asia to make soup perceived to have medicinal properties. Demand for the bladders spiked around 2011. A single bladder can reportedly sell for between ...

Totoaba swim bladders are illegally exported to Asia to make soup perceived to have medicinal properties. Demand for the bladders spiked around 2011. A single bladder can reportedly sell for between ...

Vaquitas were regularly drowning in gill nets meant for shrimp and totoabas, a fish whose swim bladder is a delicacy ... government made part of the gulf a vaquita refuge. But the population ...

Researchers are scanning the skeleton of the world’s most endangered marine animal, the vaquita, to aid conservation efforts.

The vaquita has been nearly wiped out by gillnets used to fish for the also-endangered totoaba fish. The swim bladder of the totoaba is a delicacy in China and can fetch as much as $20,000 (£ ...

Authorities in China are prosecuting 11 people for smuggling $119m (£90m) worth of fish swim bladders from Mexico ... Numbers of the vaquita marina porpoise, local to the Gulf of California ...

CT scanning, FAU researchers have scanned a full skeleton of a very rare vaquita specimen from the 1960s. The objective of scanning this rare specimen for display purposes is to facilitate the ...

as has been repeatedly noted by the International Committee for the Recovery of the Vaquita (CIRVA), utilizes gillnets and provides cover for fishermen engaged in the illegal capture of totoaba and ...