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Photos: The Vaquita's Last Stand Part 1
Sea Shepherd's flag waves in the breeze as the ship patrols the Sea of Cortez for abandoned fishing nets. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / editorial | staff)
Crew members from Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's ship in the Sea of Cortez are featured in the documentary "Sea of Shadows." (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / file | staff)
From left, Sea Shepherd crew members Ivan Silva and Jorge Amaya pilot the ship. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / editorial | staff)
Sea Shepherd crew members Volcy Boilvein and Jorge Amaya see what might be an abandoned net on the ship's sonar. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / editorial | staff)
Sea Shepherd patrols the Sea of Cortez for illegal gillnets used to catch a large fished called the totoaba. The nets are a threat to the world's most endangered marine mammal, the vaquita marina. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / file | staff)
Sea Shepherd crew members pull an illegal gillnet out of the ocean. (Sea Shepherd)
A totoaba caught in a gillnet. (Sea Shepherd / handout | contributor)
A vaquita and a totoaba shown side-by-side. Because of their similar size, gillnets designed to catch totoaba easily ensnare the vaquita, too. (Omar Vidal/Proyecto Vaquita (1992) / handout | agency)
A man holds up a totoaba, which is nearly the same size as the vaquita. (Omar Vidal/Proyecto Vaquita (1992) / handout | contributor)
Totoaba dead on the beach of the Sea of Cortez. (Sea Shepherd / handout | contributor)
Sea Shepherd stores nets they have pulled from the ocean in a dirt lot on the outskirts of San Felipe, Baja California until they can be sent away to be recycled. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / editorial | staff)
A sea turtle shell found in the gillnets Sea Shepherd removed from the Sea of Cortez. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / editorial | staff)
A fishermen holds up a bone found in a gillnet pulled from the vaquita refuge. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ)
Alfonso Blancafort, Baja California representative for SEMARNAT - the Mexican agency responsible for protecting the environment. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / editorial | staff)
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