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title: "News"
canonical: https://stvw-preview.laravel.cloud/news
updated: 2026-10-06T01:29:55Z
source: Generated from vaquita.mx
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# News

Updates about the vaquita and Save The Vaquita Week, newest first.

- 2026-06-15: [The Colorado River’s water deal for its delta ends this year](https://stvw-preview.laravel.cloud/news/colorado-river-delta-water-deal-ends.md) · The vaquita lives at the northern tip of the Gulf of California, where the Colorado River used to meet the sea. For most of the last half century, the river…
- 2026-06-10: [Following the totoaba trade, from Samarkand to Hong Kong](https://stvw-preview.laravel.cloud/news/following-the-totoaba-trade.md) · Vaquitas die in gillnets that are set for another animal, the totoaba. It’s a large fish that lives only in the Gulf of California, and its dried swim bladder…
- 2026-02-06: [Mexico plans to shrink the gillnet-free zone, and the new rules are still unpublished](https://stvw-preview.laravel.cloud/news/mexico-plans-to-shrink-the-gillnet-free-zone.md) · Since 2020, Mexico’s fishing rules for the Upper Gulf of California have banned gillnets across a large stretch of the vaquita’s range, though only on paper.…
- 2025-10-28: [The 2025 survey found 7 to 10 vaquitas, and at least one calf](https://stvw-preview.laravel.cloud/news/2025-survey-7-to-10-vaquitas.md) · Every year since 2019, a small team of Mexican and international scientists has gone out into the Upper Gulf of California to find out whether the vaquita is…