Cetacean Action Treasury
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Rescuing the vaquita porpoise and securing a sustainable fishing future for the Upper Gulf of California with Mexican partners. www.cetact.org
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Good to have sea lion disentanglements on the offshore islands of the Upper Gulf undertaken more regularly with skills built locally. Congratulations to all involved last week, net captures on slippery rocks are challenging!
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San Felipe fisher Ana García films herself removing the recently installed satellite vessel monitoring system in protest of government lack of subsidy support for non-federated fishers. Much work to be done in #vaquita habitat for sustainable & legal fishing to become the norm.
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3/4 Interesting (& logical!) conclusion that a probable consequence of accelerated development of totoaba farming - organized crime would take over as they have done for so many other Mexican "legal" seafood businesses - is the best case scenario for poaching reduction 🤦
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2/4 Many unknowns, esp on demand side for swim bladders in Asia. Conclusion that #totoaba poaching costs higher than farming is based on good but small sample in 2018 & seems implausible now. Fish farming has proven more technically challenging than shellfish aquaculture in Upper Gulf environment.
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1/4 Good article with author interviews for economic modeling paper based on years of work by UCSB team incl @julawson.bsky.social & @simonjean.bsky.social et al- Farmed #totoaba could curb poaching through price competition.
Really? Mexico eager to promote community aquaculture in #vaquita habitat.
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Three men arrested in Guadalajara in late September for illegal seafood, including 39 kg of dried #totoaba swim bladders, & other wildlife have been charged & are being held in preventative detention, acc to @ernesto-mendez.bsky.social reporting.

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Happy National Totoaba Day, for those who celebrate.
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New @Conapesca commissioner will make his first visit to San Felipe on October 14, opening day of shrimp season, to listen to concerns of fishers, according to Ana García, fishing leader & Panchito guardian 🦭
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2/2 The last 2 times surveys were in autumn, not spring, were 2019 & 2021, with lots of illegal gillnetting for shrimp observed within the ZTA. Not this time 🙏. But still quite windy weather, making it difficult to spot & photograph the small distinctive #vaquita dorsal fins.
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1/2 Fishers are informed by @SEMAR_mx @SEMARNAT_mx @CONANP_mx & the municipal government of San Felipe that the September 2025 #vaquita porpoise survey has concluded & are thanked for their support.
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Remembering Jane Goodall who did good for all, including #vaquitas

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This article is about work of @SeaShepherdSSCS but key message for us: "One of the starkest lessons from #vaquita conservation is the danger of sidelining the very people who live alongside the species. Fishers, for example, cannot be cast as villains; they must be partners."
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Cartel news from @ZETATijuana - rupture of the Sinaloa cartel, after US captures & prosecutions of El Chapo's family (La Chapiza faction) & his bodyguard El Mayo ("Russians" or Los Rusos faction) - may further threaten San Felipe with entrance of Jalisco New Generation (CJNG).
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If a sundown unconventional piano concert in the desert salt flats of Mexico's Upper Gulf of California & Colorado River Delta Biosphere Reserve has been on your bucket list, here's your chance
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They already are on San Felipe pangas, Santa Clara install started afterwards. Drones can be launched from anywhere but they are range limited so if one wants to observe the far side of the Vaquita Refuge one must have a boat.
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It means that the public reports are not the full record