Mexico failed the totoaba, trade with it in protected species should be halted

28/3/2023 12:13

        An international wildlife convention on Monday recommended that all commercial trade of species on its protected list with Mexico should be suspended, saying the country failed to deliver an appropriate plan to protect its native totoaba fish.
        
        In the Gulf of California, illegal fishing of endangered totoaba - a fish whose bladder is highly valued in Asian markets for its use in traditional medicine - has brought the vaquita, the world's smallest porpoise, to the brink of extinction.
        
        Mexico had in late February presented a plan to protect the fish, but a notification on Monday from the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) said it found this plan inadequate.