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Rescuing the vaquita porpoise and securing a sustainable fishing future for the Upper Gulf of California with Mexican partners
With partners MAREM, @pescaabc & Arcadia Social & Environmental Research Network, @PronaturaNoroes is working with fishers & authorities to develop a co-regulation approach where fishers take more responsibility for developing & managing sustainable fisheries in #vaquita habitat
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Panchito's back!
Gone since Sept, San Felipe's visiting (3x in 2 yrs) vagrant southern elephant seal now roaming Sea of Cortez comes 1st time in winter.
AMMAG (community wildlife group): "Confirming it is Panchito by distinguishing marks he has; he is plump & very good condition"
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Now US enforcement of its environmental laws protecting North Atlantic right whales from fishing gear entanglement & vessel strikes will be the subject of a @cecweb factual record report, as is due for #vaquita & Mexico February 10
cec.org/media/development-of-a-factual-record-regarding-the-north-atlantic-right-whale-submission/
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March 2024 we wrote ⬇️ about how unusual it was for @CITES Secretariat 3 day mission to San Felipe to see zero fishing activity when visit was planned to coincide with first fishing tide in spring finfish season. In its mission report, Secretariat concurs
cites.org/sites/default/files/documents/E-SC78-33-12-01-A4.pdf
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Highlights of CITES study on vaquita and totoaba for #SC78
1/4 🧵Voluminous #vaquita & #totoaba docs now being posted to @CITES #SC78. We'll start our highlight series with the 100 page scientific study by our esteemed colleague Valeria Towns, who has been working in Mexico's Upper Gulf of California since 2019.
cites.org/sites/default/files/documents/E-SC78-33-12-01-A7.pdf
CEC USMCA report on vaquita to be completed Feb 10 2025
The @CECweb Secretariat delayed its report (factual record) on Mexico's enforcement of its envtl laws to protect #vaquita porpoise, a USMCA treaty obligation, to Feb 10 - just not in time for @CITES #SC78 which meets Feb 3-8 (& whose Sec is late with its own docs on the subject).
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Big win for marine mammals: NOAA settles NGO seafood imports lawsuit
1 This is a big deal! Yday in settlement of @NRDC @CenterForBioDiv AWI lawsuit, @NOAAFisheries commits to a transparent 2025 public schedule for what had been an opaque & delayed process of determining which seafood imports are allowable because have comparable bycatch mitigation
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Not a good look for US gov leverage to compel MX gov to do more to save #vaquita porpoise
@NOAAFisheries terminates 2.5 year rulemaking process to tighten speed limits in zones to protect Critically Endangered North Atlantic right whales from ship strikes
federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/16/2025-00718/north-atlantic-right-whale-vessel-strike-reduction-rule