Bycatch threatens marine mammals, but new protections hold promise for Mexican vaquita
Monday, December 14, 2015 - 11:10
in Biology & Nature
Gillnetting around the world is ensnaring hundreds of thousands of small cetaceans every year, threatening several species of dolphins and porpoises with extinction, according to new research. But there is one bright spot in the Gulf of California, where Mexican authorities earlier this year instituted an emergency two-year ban on gillnetting to help save the critically endangered vaquita.