Dave Harmon, PW editor
- Mar 16, 2019
- 1 min read

Mexico | Critically endangered vaquita found dead in fishing net; only about 20 remain

A vaquita marina, a critically endangered porpoise of which about 20 are believed to remain, was found dead in a fish net off the coast of Mexico, environmentalists said Thursday.

Two patrol ships from the environmental group Sea Shepherd found the vaquita's badly decayed carcass Tuesday, trapped in a gill net in a protected marine reserve in the Gulf of California, in northwestern Mexico, the organization said in a statement.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/critically-endangered-vaquita-porpoise-found-dead-mexico-220106183--spt.html

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