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Vaquita Face Extinction from Bycatch. Comment on Manjarrez-Bringas, N. et al., Lessons for Sustainable Development: Marine Mammal Conservation Policies and Its Social and Economic Effects. Sustainability 2018, 10, 2185
Steven M. NelsonKirsten RowellDavid L. DettmanKarl W. FlessaMichał KowalewskiFrancisco Zamora-arroyoBernard R. SchoneCarlos E. Cintra-buenrostroDavid H. GoodwinJansen A. SmithGregory P. DietlGregory P. DietlLuis Calderon-aguileraDavid K. Jacobssubject
0106 biological sciences<i>Phocoena sinus</i>010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciencesVaquitaGeography Planning and DevelopmentPopulationEndangered speciesTJ807-830PhocoenaManagement Monitoring Policy and Lawmarine mammalbycatchTD194-195010603 evolutionary biology01 natural sciencesRenewable energy sourcesfisheries policybiology.animalGulf of CaliforniavaquitaGE1-350education0105 earth and related environmental sciencesSustainable developmenteducation.field_of_studybiologyEnvironmental effects of industries and plantsRenewable Energy Sustainability and the Environmentbiology.organism_classificationFisheryBycatchEnvironmental sciencesGeographySustainabilityPorpoisedescription
We are among the scientists who have documented the environmental and ecological changes to the Upper Gulf of California following the reduction in the Colorado River’s flow. We object to any suggestion that our research supports Manjarrez-Bringas et al.’s conclusion that the decline in the Colorado River’s flow is the reason for the decline in the population of the endangered vaquita porpoise (Phocoena sinus). Manjarrez-Bringas et al.’s conclusions are incongruent with their own data, their logic is untenable, their analyses fail to consider current illegal fishing practices, and their recommendations are unjustified and misdirected. Vaquita face extinction because of bycatch, not because of the lack of river flow.
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2019-04-11 | Sustainability |