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Photos: The Vaquita's Last Stand Part 3
Marine biologist Mauricio Nájera talks with fishermen who are helping to monitor the vaquita marina. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / editorial | staff)
These sea-pens in El Nido were originally meant to house a captive population of vaquitas. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / editorial | staff)
Francisco Iñegas holds up totoaba fish-food pellets in El Nido. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / editorial | staff)
Farmed totoaba swim to the surface of their pens to get food. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / editorial | staff)
Pens where totoaba are being farmed in El Nido. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / editorial | staff)
Julio Cesar Rubio pulls out a CPod used to monitor the location of vaquitas in the Sea of Cortez. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / editorial | staff)
Marine biologist Mauricio Nájera uses an acoustic monitoring system to find out where vaquitas are swimming and how many there are. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / editorial | staff)
Fisherman Jose Luis Romero, 58, helps with an acoustic monitoring system that tracks vaquitas. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / editorial | staff)
Julio Cesar Rubio talks with Mauricio Nájera as they head out to collect data from an acoustic monitoring system that tracks the vaquita marina. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / editorial | staff)
Jose Luis Romero heads out to the Sea of Cortez where he helps monitor for vaquitas. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / editorial | staff)
Fishermen Jose Luis Romero (right) and Julio Cesar Rubio head out to the Sea of Cortez where they help with an acoustic monitoring system that tracks the vaquita. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / editorial | staff)
Henoch Rizo is director of operations for the non-profit Museo de la Ballena in the Upper Gulf of California. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / editorial | staff)
Museo de la Ballena uses a ship to help remove gillnets from the vaquita's habitat in the upper Sea of Cortez. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / editorial | staff)
The Aquario Oceánico team in San Felipe. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / editorial | staff)
El Nido in the Sea of Cortez was meant to house a captive population of vaquitas, but is now being used to farm totoaba. (Kendal Blust/KJZZ / editorial | staff)
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