As the year draws to a close, WWF takes a look back on the wonderful year of 2013 in their “15 WWF Success Stories of 2013.” Of course, the biggest Vaquita news in recent memory took place this June in the form of the Official Norm law, a new regulation that guarantees that all shrimp gillnets will be phased into Vaquita-safe trawls within the next 3 years! The Vaquita is featured at number 6 on the list because it was WWF’s petition (which garnered over 38,000 signatures from 127 countries) that caused the law in the first place. We cannot give enough thanks to WWF and everyone else that has helped the Vaquita so far in its eventful, 55-year history with us (the Vaquita was discovered in 1958). Let’s have a toast to a great 2014 for the Vaquita!
My sister and I came up with a fun holiday activity to find out your Vaquita name! For example, my name is Aidan and I was born in March, so my Vaquita name would be, “Vita Marina.” Have fun and please share!
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“a new regulation that guarantees that all gillnets will be phased into Vaquita-safe trawls within the next 3 years.”
I am sorry to say that the statement above is incorrect. The shirmp fishery is phases out gill nets in three years, the fin fish gil net fishery for sierra and corvina have no such plans at the moment.
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How clumsy of me! I will update that ASAP. I must have been rushing when I typed that. Thanks for pointing that out!
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That was one of the saddest parts of the research I did when I was up there. It is hard for me to understand how they can regulate the shrimp fishery but not deal with the others which are equally deadly in terms of vaquita mortality.
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I completely agree. That is the next step that we are working on. Hopefully we can get a similar law but for finfish in 2014!
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