Highlights from Vaquita Day 2024 Event

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1/6 🧵Some highlights of talks during @porpoiseorg @Viva_Vaquita International Vaquita Day 2024 event yesterday (links to timestops on Youtube video) Barb Taylor's heartfelt remembrance of Armando Jaramillo-Legorreta youtube.com/live/nGMsLPGGcMQ?si=haGOIaP6OunAArot&t=889

2/6 Acoustic monitors now in Vaquita Refuge outside the Zero Tolerance Area, data is not back yet. (Refuge hasn't been surveyed in several years, & last 2 times it was, vaquitas only encountered in ZTA - 2018 & again when Armando's team surveyed in 2021.) youtube.com/live/nGMsLPGGcMQ?si=OXOorYZtbu2qpT0o&t=2342 x.com/CetaceanAction/status/1674473180281315341

3/6 Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho explains that vaquita-safe fishing gear exists only on paper & illustrates the negative impacts from this on both vaquita & communities youtube.com/live/nGMsLPGGcMQ?si=UP5z300tTLUXGtV3&t=5776

4/6 Transition to vaquita-safe fishing gear is the only viable path to full recovery of the species & sustainment of fishing communities, wider use of anti-gillnet devices is not feasible youtube.com/live/nGMsLPGGcMQ?si=rThCpZTGjJHMQBSF&t=6133

5/6 "The good news, most important step we ever had:" @CONANP_mx & @PronaturaNoroes meetings w San Felipe & El Golfo de Santa Clara fishers to co-develop plan to adapt & test gillnet alternatives, overcome technical, social & economic barriers to their use youtube.com/live/nGMsLPGGcMQ?si=u46yGwcdFoEWMaR1&t=6297

6/6 Shoutout from Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho to our partnership with @PronaturaNoroes & @pescaabc in a grassroots approach to make vaquita-safe fishing a reality (if we can sustain the funding) youtube.com/live/nGMsLPGGcMQ?si=MWWJw1-tQKZQX3Im&t=9909n