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• 2023NEWS

  First ever Extinction Alert from the IWC: the vaquita porpoise

  International Whaling Commission · International Whaling Commission, News Archive · IWC 2023

  On 7 August 2023 the International Whaling Commission issued the first Extinction Alert in its history, about the vaquita. The alert, led by the IWC Scientific Committee, says the species is not yet beyond saving and calls for 100% of gillnets in vaquita habitat to be replaced right away with alternative gear.

  Gillnets & bycatch Totoaba trade Policy & enforcement

• 2019RESEARCH

  A field effort to capture critically endangered vaquitas Phocoena sinus for protection from entanglement in illegal gillnets

  Rojas-Bracho and co-authors · Endangered Species Research 38: 11-27 · Peer reviewed · Rojas-Bracho et al. 2019

  This paper describes VaquitaCPR, the 2017 emergency attempt to catch vaquitas and hold them in protected care while illegal gillnets were still in their habitat. Over 11 field days between 13 October and 4 November 2017, the team caught two vaquitas. A juvenile female was released within hours because it showed signs of stress, and an adult female died of capture myopathy on the day of capture, so the program was suspended.

  Gillnets & bycatch Totoaba trade 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