Fishermen mass to overwhelm Mexico’s protected porpoises

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  • In this Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019 photo released by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, dozens of endangered totoaba fish are seen captured inside small fishing boats in the Gulf of California, near San Felipe, Mexico. Sea Shepherd operates in the area to remove the illegal gillnets which also trap the world's most endangered marine mammal, the vaquita porpoise, but the group said the mass fishing seen Sunday was a new tactic, in which a number of boats would surround and enclose totoabas to ensure they couldn't escape the nets. (Sea Shepherd via AP)
  • In this Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019 photo released by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, fishermen work together to catch endangered totoaba fish, in the Gulf of California near San Felipe, Mexico. Sea Shepherd operates in the area to remove the illegal gillnets which also trap the world's most endangered marine mammal, the vaquita porpoise, but the group said the mass fishing seen Sunday was a new tactic, in which a number of boats would surround and enclose totoabas to ensure they couldn't escape the nets. (Sea Shepherd via AP)
  • In this Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019 photo released by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, fishermen work together to trap endangered totoaba fish, in the Gulf of California near San Felipe, Mexico. Sea Shepherd operates in the area to remove the illegal gillnets which also trap the world's most endangered marine mammal, the vaquita porpoise, but the group said the mass fishing seen Sunday was a new tactic, in which a number of boats would surround and enclose totoabas to ensure they couldn't escape the nets. (Sea Shepherd via AP)
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Mexico Endangered Porpoise

In this Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019 photo released by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, dozens of endangered totoaba fish are seen captured inside small fishing boats in the Gulf of California, near San Felipe, Mexico. Sea Shepherd operates in the area to remove the illegal gillnets which also trap the world’s most endangered marine mammal, the vaquita porpoise, but the group said the mass fishing seen Sunday was a new tactic, in which a number of boats would surround and enclose totoabas to ensure they couldn’t escape the nets. (Sea Shepherd via AP)

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MEXICO CITY (AP) — A conservation group trying to protect the world’s most endangered marine mammal said Monday that hundreds of fishermen massed in dozens of boats to fish illegally in Mexico’s Gulf of California.

Activists with the Sea Shepherd group said they witnessed about 80 small…

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  2. Take these poor animals away to a sanctuary protected from people.

    And I feel that I must have to have a mum’s the word duct tape over my mouth, if I don’t subscribe to any other belief than Humanity Uber Alles, and get called a racist. I felt I can’t/couldn’t even comment on the African forests being mowed down.

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