1. Saving the Vacquita: Immediate Action, Not More Data.
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JARAMILLO‐LEGORRETA, ARMANDO, ROJAS‐BRACHO, LORENZO, BROWNELL, ROBERT L., READ, ANDREW J., REEVES, RANDALL R., RALLS, KATHERINE, and TAYLOR, BARBARA L.
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PHOCOENA sinus , *GILLNETTING , *ENDANGERED species , *FISHING nets , *PORPOISES , *BIOLOGICAL extinction , *ENVIRONMENTAL policy - Abstract
The authors reports that the vaquita (Gulf of California porpoise, Phocoena sinus), is in imminent danger of extinction by the use of gillnet fishing in El Golfo de Santa Clara and San Felipe, Mexico as of December 2007. They call for the use of economic incentives to the fishing communities as a way of halting the use of such nets, and the incidental death of the porpoises caused by their use. Using computer models, they found that the vaquita has two years before they reach a population level of no return.
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- 2007
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