Map showing the totoaba's range and demand.

Map showing how the vaquita is currently only found in a small area (marked in orange) within the same waters as the totoaba (marked in yellow). The main destination for trade in totoaba maw is East Asia.

Photo By/Credit

Melissa Gonzalez/USFWS

Date Shot/Created

11/24/2022

Media Usage Rights/License

Public Domain

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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.