30 Vaquita Porpoises Are Left. One Died in a Rescue Mission.

30 Vaquita Porpoises Are Left. One Died in a Rescue Mission.
Crosta said that They are very elusive, they are very shy; you’re going to kill one of them.
But because the corvina and totoaba fishing seasons overlap, fishermen can hide the totoaba nets
beneath the corvina nets on their boats, said Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho, the director of Vaquita CPR.
It has been dubbed "aquatic cocaine." Mexico banned totoaba fishing in 1993, but it was only in 2015 — when vaquita numbers dwindled to about 100 —
that the government also banned most gill nets, including those used for catching shrimp and other kinds of fish.
Paul Watson said that I was telling them that this was going to happen, you’re going to stress out the animals,
Most of the region’s fishermen, who have been out of work since the ban, poach totoaba swim bladders, which fetch
$3,000 to $10,000 per kilogram, said Andrea Crosta, the director of a group that investigates the totoaba trade.
Dave Bader said that If you’re out here on the water, you’re not risking jail time to catch shrimp,