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• 1993LAW

  DECRETO por el que se declara área natural protegida con el carácter de Reserva de la Biosfera, la región conocida como Alto Golfo de California y Delta del Río Colorado, ubicada en aguas del Golfo de California y los municipios de Mexicali, B.C., de Puerto Peñasco y San Luis Río Colorado, Son.

  Presidencia de la República · Diario Oficial de la Federación · DOF 1993

  This presidential decree created the Upper Gulf of California and Colorado River Delta Biosphere Reserve, a protected area of 934,756 hectares around the northern tip of the Gulf. Inside the reserve it declares a total and indefinite ban on hunting and capturing the vaquita, the totoaba and a list of other animals, including dolphins, whales and the California sea lion.

  Policy & enforcement Habitat & ecosystem Conservation efforts In Spanish

• 1979REPORT

  Phocoena sinus: CITES listing record (Species+)

  CITES and UNEP-WCMC · Species+ database (CITES Secretariat and UNEP-WCMC) · CITES Appendix I

  The Species+ database, run for the CITES Secretariat by UNEP-WCMC, records the vaquita (Phocoena sinus) in Appendix I of CITES, effective 28 June 1979, with no annotation or exception. Appendix I is the Convention's highest level of trade control, reserved for species threatened with extinction that are or may be affected by trade.

  Policy & enforcement Conservation efforts

• 1975LAW

  ACUERDO que establece veda para la especie Totoaba, Cynoscion MacDonaldi, en aguas del Golfo de California, desde la desembocadura del Río Colorado hasta el Río Fuerte, Sinaloa en la costa oriental, y del Río Colorado a Bahía Concepción, Baja California, en la costa occidental.

  Secretaría de Industria y Comercio · Diario Oficial de la Federación · DOF 1975

  This Mexican fisheries order closes the fishery for totoaba, a large fish of the Gulf of California, to all fishing, commercial and sport, with no end date. The closure covers the Gulf from the mouth of the Colorado River to the Río Fuerte in Sinaloa on the eastern side, and from the Colorado River to Bahía Concepción on the Baja California side. It takes effect the day after publication, and anyone who fishes totoaba is liable to the penalties of the federal fisheries law of the time.

  Totoaba trade Policy & enforcement In Spanish