30 Vaquita Porpoises Are Left. One Died in a Rescue Mission.<br />Crosta said that They are very elusive, they are very shy; you’re going to kill one of them.<br />But because the corvina and totoaba fishing seasons overlap, fishermen can hide the totoaba nets<br />beneath the corvina nets on their boats, said Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho, the director of Vaquita CPR.<br />It has been dubbed "aquatic cocaine." Mexico banned totoaba fishing in 1993, but it was only in 2015 — when vaquita numbers dwindled to about 100 —<br />that the government also banned most gill nets, including those used for catching shrimp and other kinds of fish.<br />Paul Watson said that I was telling them that this was going to happen, you’re going to stress out the animals,<br />Most of the region’s fishermen, who have been out of work since the ban, poach totoaba swim bladders, which fetch<br />$3,000 to $10,000 per kilogram, said Andrea Crosta, the director of a group that investigates the totoaba trade.<br />Dave Bader said that If you’re out here on the water, you’re not risking jail time to catch shrimp,
