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Espacio Profundo, a leading magazine on diving activities in Latin America, published an article on the training and removal of fishing gear from the seabed carried out in San Felipe, Baja California, in 2023. During these activities, more than 6,000 kg of waste were removed from the seabed. Full article >
Article that highlights the launch of Pesca ABC's fishing gear recycling tournament to combat pollution, in El Golfo de Santa Clara, Sonora.
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This is an in-depth note from Animal Político explaining in detail what Pesca ABC does regarding the recovery of ghost fishing equipment and its marine conservation work.
Article in El Pueblo, where Pesca ABC is mentioned during Cites' third technical visit to Mexican territory. The article details how the constant in San Felipe and the Gulf of Santa Clara is the use of prohibited traditional gillnets.
An article in Excelsior mentions Pesca ABC's participation during the second year that the tournament is organized to collect plastic garbage and ghost nets in the vaquita porpoise habitat in Baja California, Mexico.
An article that highlights the work of José Ernesto Martínez, a collaborator of Pesca ABC, for his work during the acoustic monitoring of the vaquita.
A recognition of Pesca ABC's work promoting vaquita-safe fishing gear.
In September 2022, an article was published addressing the issues behind the vaquita's population decline and the seriousness it represents in terms of extinction. The article called "The high-stakes quest to save a behemoth, croaking fish" mentions Pesca ABC and its staff as one of the main actors in promoting alternative fishing gear to change the fishing dynamics of the region.
Pesca ABC hosted journalists form the New York Times to include the vision of fishers in this article about vaquita conservation.
In November 2022, Yale Environmental Review published the paper “Saving the Panda of the Sea” which presents a review of the paper “An Economic perspective on Policies to Save Vaquita” of which Pesca ABC General Director is first author.
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