The nets, known as gillnets, are used to catch another species, the totoaba fish, whose swim bladder is considered a delicacy in China and can fetch $20,000 per kilogram.
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF), which has warned the vaquita risks going extinct by next year, praised the move.
The latest measures come after Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto signed a deal on June 7 with Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio and Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim to increase efforts to save the vaquita.
DiCaprio had taken Pena Nieto to task on social media for not doing enough to save the species. But the two later buried the hatchet.
The Hollywood heartthrob welcomed the permanent gillnet ban as “great news” on Twitter.
- Mexico to use dolphins to save endangered vaquita porpoise, PHYS.org, July 1, 2017.
3. In the wake of tonight’s Cavs-Bulls preseason matchup, many questions surrounding Dwyane Wade and Derrick Rose making his season debut were asked after shoot around Tuesday morning.
The friendly is an opportunity to dig up the hatchet with the Bulls organization. Now in a rebuild phase, the franchise managed to give Chicago a fresh start. Consequently, fresh starts have been handed to Wade and Rose in Cleveland.
Questions have always been a part of the Bulls franchise, and “FIRE GARPAX” will probably define their future. After the Jordan era, it’s taken a while for the organization to normalize expectations and fall into NBA mediocrity. However, they had a chance to make another historical team years ago, according to Derrick Rose.
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