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Photos: The Vaquita's Last Stand Part 2

Fishing boats float on the Sea of Cortez outside the little town of San Felipe, Baja California in November 2018. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / file | staff)

The sun rises over the ocean in San Felipe while fishing boats go out to look for illegal nets. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / editorial | staff)

Fishermen use GPS to chart areas where they are looking for illegal fishing nets. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / editorial | staff)

Small pangas, or fishing boats, are out on the water looking for illegal nets that threaten the vaquita marina. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / editorial | staff)

Mexican authorities patrol the vaquita refuge area in the Sea of Cortez for poachers in October 2018. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / file | staff)

Alina Venegas and Armando Castro help organize the fishermen who search for illegal totoaba fishing nets. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / editorial | staff)

A large fishing boat in the Sea of Cortez. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / editorial | staff)

Fisherman Ruben Orozco sits in the front of his small boat, or panga. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / editorial | staff)

Boats docked in the San Felipe harbor. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / editorial | staff)

Fishermen fill up their boats with gas after searching for illegal fishing nets. Many fishermen have participated in efforts to remove nets from the water since fishing became illegal in this area. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / file | staff)

Marcela Vasquez, director of the University of Arizona's Center for Latin American Studies. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ)