Mexico bans gillnets to protect rare vaquita porpoise

Mongabay
By Shreya DasguptaJul 26, 2016, 3:20 am185 pts
From September, Mexico will permanently ban the use of gillnets throughout the range of vaquita porpoise (Phocoena sinus) in the upper Gulf of California. With just 60 individuals remaining in the wild, the vaquita porpoise is the world’s smallest, rarest and most threatened marine mammal. Night fishing will…

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