Scientists only learned of their existence in 1958 when a few vaquita skulls were found washed ashore. Because of their shy nature, vaquitas are hard for researchers to observe. They tend to swim ...

The greatest threat to the vaquita marina is the gillnets used in the illegal fishing of totoaba, a fish endemic to the Gulf of California whose swim bladder is highly valued in Asian markets ...

Mexico's Gulf of California — one of the most biodiverse places on the planet — teems with 891 species of fish and a third of the world's cetacean species, including the smallest and most endangered ...

Fewer than 10 vaquitas, the world’s smallest porpoise, survive in the wild today, experts say. Illegal fishing has decimated ...

At least three vaquita were found dead in the spring of 2016 ... in illegal gillnet fishing for critically endangered totoaba, a large schooling marine fish in the drum or croaker family that is also ...

FAU, SeaWorld San Diego, and the San Diego Natural History Museum have joined forces to scan the rare skeleton of the vaquita ...

Sean Jansen spent most of his teenage and young adult life driving south across the border to surf along the Baja Peninsula ...

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

In support of this record, the detailed submission documents Mexico’s failure to enforce its laws, including Articles 55 and 56 of the 1975 General Wildlife Act, which banned totoaba fishing, and a ...

The vaquita is the most endangered marine mammal on the planet. Countless vaquitas have been drowned in gillnets, which is their biggest single threat. While only a few vaquitas remain, recent ...

Mexico's Gulf of California — one of the most biodiverse places on the planet — teems with 891 species of fish and a third of the world's cetacean species, including the smallest and most endangered ...