In the heart of the Gulf of California, the totoaba stands as the world's priciest fish, with a price tag exceeding $8,000.

Vaquita have long been collateral damage for Mexico’s totoaba fishers, but conservationists believe there’s a solution. The ...

Among the most expensive and exotic dishes in the world, seafood stands out. This exquisite and sought-after cuisine is ...

A surging market for ‘fish maw’ is pushing threatened species to the brink. Researchers are trying to limit the damage.

There has been a recent resurgence in illegal gillnet fishing for critically endangered totoaba, a large schooling marine fish in the drum or croaker family that is also found only in the Gulf of ...

H yacinth macaws, blue and vast, a metre long from tail to beak; the jaguar, stocky and muscular, whose ancestors crossed the ...

They are accused of bringing in 20,000 swim bladders from totoaba fish from the Gulf of California in Mexico and selling them in China. Swim bladders enable totoaba to maintain their buoyancy in ...

In 1975, after the totoaba was declared endangered, Mexico outlawed fishing for it. But the work is easier, more lucrative, and less risky than drug trafficking, so totoaba fishing continues—as ...

The middle of the country’s reputation for bland food completely ignores our Indigenous peoples,” write Sean Sherman and Mecca Bos. “Within this core of America, dismissed by some as ‘flyover ...

Only 10 vaquitas likely remain on Earth. Vaquitas become entangled and die in illegal fishing gear set to catch shrimp and finfish, including the critically endangered totoaba. The totoaba’s swim ...

The decision responds to the U.S. Interior Department’s recent certification under the U.S. Pelly Amendment that Mexico has “diminished the effectiveness” of the Convention on International Trade in ...

The first thing any visitor to the Mexican capital will take in — probably while staring out the window in awe as their airplane descends over the intense, urbanity-on-steroids sprawl — is the ...