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Bookmark or Share- Home - Marine Mammal CommissionBeloved Vaquita Scientist August 29, 2024. The Marine Mammal Commission is devastated to learn of the loss of our dear colleague Dr. Armando Jaramillo-Legorreta. For decades Armando has been at the heart and a hero of the international team dedicated to vaquita science.
- Vaquita - Marine Mammal CommissionThe 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 ...
- 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.
- Phocoena sinus Totoaba macdonaldi - Marine Mammal CommissionCalifornia 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.
- Secretary of State U.S. Department of State - Marine Mammal CommissionDepartment 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.
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