Taking Down Mexico’s Totoaba Cartels Helps with Vaquita Conservation

Taking Down Mexico’s Totoaba Cartels Helps with Vaquita Conservation

By Maxwell Radin

Source: hakaimagazine

1/25/2023

Credit: Semarnat

Some of Mexico’s most ambitious and successful wildlife traffickers are now in jail, officials announced January 3, 2023.

Mexico’s navy confirmed in a press conference that members of cartels dedicated to the trafficking of totoaba have been arrested and put in prison, effectively dismantling some of the main organized crime groups contributing to declining fish populations in the Gulf of California.