Mexico sets out search to find vaquita marina, the world’s most endangered marine mammal
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Mexican officials and a conservation group will conduct a search in the Sea of Cortez to locate the world’s remaining vaquita marina, the ocean’s most endangered mammal.
The trip will run from May 10 to May 27 in the Gulf of California, also known as the Sea of Cortez, the only place the vaquita lives. The group will travel in a Sea Shepherd vessel and a Mexican boat to try and sight vaquitas; as few as eight of the creatures are believed to remain.
Illegal gillnet fishing traps and kills the vaquita. Fishermen set the nets to catch totoaba, a fish whose swim bladder is considered a delicacy in China and can fetch thousands of dollars per pound (kilogram).
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