SEA OF CORTEZ—An attempt to patrol possible illegal fishing activities in the upper stretches of the Sea of Cortez turned into a tense standoff involving poachers, nonprofit marine conservationists and the Mexican Navy, on Jan. 9.
A ship associated with the international nonprofit marine conservation organization Sea Shepherd became entangled with...
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M/V Farley Mowat was ambushed and overwhelmed by more than 35 skiffs, many containing gillnets. The poachers attacked by hurling lead weights, anchors, trash, dead fish and even Tabasco sauce at the vessel and its wheelhouse windows in addition to threatening ship’s crew with Molotov cocktails, spraying gasoline at the ship and pouring gas in the sea around the vessel,” Sea Shepherd staff stated about the incident. “Poachers then dropped an illegal gillnet in front of the bow of the moving Sea Shepherd vessel in an attempt to foul the ship’s propellers. Five agitated poachers illegally boarded the M/V Farley Mowat and looted multiple objects from the vessel’s deck while it was temporarily immobilized.”
Sea Shepard is only there to harvest some press coverage the “real ” news is that the 1000’s of sq miles of what was colorado river delta is history and has been for 50-75 years and the marshland were an incredible nursery for an envronoment that no longer exists and likely the conditions that bred the vaquita in the first place , the only thing that we can do now is watch to see what the new conditions will support the best and likely only thing to be done is probably the same thing the Canadians did to the caribou in northern washington southern B.C,Sweep up the stragglers and place them in an environment where they will not be lost until an environment can be found where they will survive , its unfortunate that Greenpeece can’t see that the northern sea of cortez is like the Mediterranean and is nearly dead and is merely involved in a downward spiral of over-fishing in a community where the only local protein comes from the sea