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- Vaquita - Marine Mammal Commission
The tiny vaquita porpoise is the world’s smallest and most endangered cetacean species The vaquita remains on the brink of extinction with approximately 10 remaining in 2023 Analysis of acoustic data from 2011 to 2018 combined with visual observations in 2017 and 2018 showed an estimated average annual rate of decline of 33%, corresponding
- Seventh Meeting of the Comité Internacional para la Recuperación de la . . .
Given the continued decline of the vaquita population, CIRVA considered the question of ex situ approaches to vaquita conservation While recognizing the risks and complexities of such an approach, CIRVA concluded that fieldwork to determine the feasibility of ex situ conservation actions for the vaquita is warranted
- Vaquita - Marine Mammal Commission
• Vaquita population decline has accelerated, 49 % 2015-16 • September 2016 30 vaquitas remain • Gillnet ban to expire in April 2017
- Vaquita (Phocoena sinus - Marine Mammal Commission
• Expansion of the area of the Vaquita Refuge • Two year suspension of fishing activities that represent risk to vaquitas (esp gillnets) • Compensation to licensees, fishermen and other workers in the shrimp, finfish and shark fisheries • Community-based surveillance and enforcement scheme
- Secretary of State U. S. Department of State - Marine Mammal Commission
Department of State’s budget for energy and the environment to recover the vaquita, a small porpoise found only in the northern Gulf of California The species numbers about 150 individuals and is teetering at the very brink of extinction The major threat is a Mexican gillnet fishery for shrimp
- Mexican Government and WWF establish international expert committee to . . .
This independent committee has been charged with improving existing vaquita-safe fishing technologies (such as the small trawl to catch shrimp and traps and other gear for fish) to substitute gillnets which will be permanently prohibited starting September in the Upper Gulf of California, the only place on Earth where the vaquita exists
- Stronger protection needed to prevent imminent extinction of Mexican . . .
CIRVA warns that accidental drowning in gillnets is rapidly driving the vaquita (Phocoena sinus) toward extinction Previous research showed that the vaquita had declined from around 570 in 1997 to 250 in 2008 The vaquita is the most endangered marine mammal, indeed one of the most endangered mammals, in the world
- Phocoena sinus Totoaba macdonaldi - Marine Mammal Commission
California porpoise or vaquita (Phocoena sinus), the most endangered of all cetacean species The vaquita is undergoing a catastrophic decline as a result of entanglement and drowning in gillnets used in the illegal fishery for a large fish species, the totoaba (Totoaba macdonaldi), in the Upper Gulf of California, Mexico
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