In Mexico, Fish Poachers Push
Endangered Porpoises to Brink

Yale e360
By Yale Environment 360Mar 1, 2016, 8:37 am54 pts
China’s lucrative black market for fish parts is threatening the vaquita, the world’s most endangered marine mammal. The porpoises, who live only in the Gulf of California, are getting caught up as bycatch in illegal gill nets and killed. BY BEN GOLDFARB

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