Photo By/Credit
Melissa Gonzalez/USFWS
Date Shot/Created
11/24/2022Media Usage Rights/License
Public Domain
Image
Map showing the range of the totoaba and vaquita. Both species are included on CITES Appendix I and are threatened by illegal fishing to meet the demand for totoaba swim bladder in East Asia. The vaquita is captured as bycatch in gillnets used to illegally catch totoaba.