Vaquitas: Mexico’s plan to avoid wasting endangered porpoises may backfire

Lots of of cement pillars with hooks have been deployed within the Gulf of California to snag fishing nets that threaten endangered porpoises, however these may additionally lure sea life and pollute the waters

By Corryn Wetzel

In a last-ditch try to avoid wasting a critically endangered porpoise, Mexican officers started dropping weighted steel hooks within the Gulf of California in July. The purpose is to snag unlawful gill nets, thereby discouraging and thwarting the fishing observe that’s largely chargeable for winnowing the population of vaquitas to simply eight people.

“With so few vaquitas remaining on the planet, we’re not able to make any errors,” says Alex Olivera on the Heart for …