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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Fernanda Pesce

Mexican Navy hopes to expand net-snagging hooks to protect endangered vaquita porpoises

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Mexico’s Navy said Wednesday it is planning to expand the area where it sinks concrete blocks topped with metal hooks to snag gill nets that are killing vaquita marina porpoises.

The Navy began dropping the blocks into the Gulf of California last year, in hopes it may help save the world’s most endangered marine mammal.

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