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    The vaquita, a small porpoise found only in Mexico's Gulf of California, has seen its population plummet from around 700 in 1990 to less than 10 in 2022, making it the most endangered marine mammal. It feeds on small fish, crustaceans, and cephalopods. Its population decline is due to getting trapped in illegal fishing nets despite conservation efforts to protect it from predators like sharks and orcas and stop illegal fishing in its limited habitat.

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    The vaquita, a small porpoise found only in Mexico's Gulf of California, has seen its population plummet from around 700 in 1990 to less than 10 in 2022, making it the most endangered marine mammal. It feeds on small fish, crustaceans, and cephalopods. Its population decline is due to getting trapped in illegal fishing nets despite conservation efforts to protect it from predators like sharks and orcas and stop illegal fishing in its limited habitat.

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    Vaquita

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    The vaquita, a small porpoise found only in Mexico's Gulf of California, has seen its population plummet from around 700 in 1990 to less than 10 in 2022, making it the most endangered marine mammal. It feeds on small fish, crustaceans, and cephalopods. Its population decline is due to getting trapped in illegal fishing nets despite conservation efforts to protect it from predators like sharks and orcas and stop illegal fishing in its limited habitat.

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    Population 1990’-2022 Fact’s Scientific name: 

    Phocoena
    sinus

    Vaquita
    90’ = around 700  Vaquitas feed on small fish,
    crustaceans (such as shrimp),
     It only lives in the northern Family: Phocoenidae
    part of the Gulf of California in Conservation
    and cephalopods (such as Mexico status: Critically Endangered
    squid and octopuses) (Population decreasing)

    2012 = around 200 The rarest animal in the world ten dead vaquita have been Vaquitas, like their harbour
    is the vaquita (Phocoena found between 2016 and 2019 porpoise cousins, make loud
    sinus). noises that sound a bit like
    pig snorts

    2014 = around 100 Phocoena sinus' main Do vaquitas swim fast? porpoise could survive … bu
    predators are large sharks and THEY ARE SLOWER THAN t only if
    killer whales DOLPHINS, BUT ARE STILL illegal fishing stops immedi
    ately
    VERY SKILLED SWIMMERS

    2022 = less than 10  43 kg (Adult)


     1.2 – 1.5 m (Adult)

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