Mobulas, a Wonder of the Gulf of California, Are Disappearing

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A few years ago, in the Gulf of California, small acoustic devices began to be transplanted in Palacios ray, which converted their data into messenger. In prison, renting for work, capturing animals and then returning them to water. This technique is known as Passive Acostic Telemetry, and though apparently aggressive, it is operated with extreme care. Once released the animals resume their swimming.

Each time a tagged animal goes to the receiver of the bottom of the water, the date and duration of its visits are recorded. With this data, Palacio was enabled in 2021 Description A reproductive zone for the first time M. Munciana In a Gulf of the Gulf of California. To further reconstruct the life history of these animals, scientists collected certificates from fishermen and monitored their monument groups using drones.

Nowadays palcius sleeps very rarely. He spends his night in Mexico to see the fishermen of the stained saintly species below a commercial and legally fisted species, when they drop their nets into the sea. Mobulas were accidentally caught in these nets. In one of his tests, more than 40 nights are enrolled in the situation and the use of light nets can decide whether the bike can reduce the bike.

A lack of strict protection

Due to their estimated Medic characteristics, Mabula meat and gill plates are in a growing demand in Asia. Palacios recently led a research to try to understand the level of problems, which involves 100 surveys and interviews in 19 countries. The research team has analyzed data from 75 countries, including pictures and records of itching of Palestine, Somalia, Vietnam and Hong Kong.

Monta Birostris Gill Rechers for sale in a dry marine store in Hong Kong

Selling gill plates in dry marine stores.

Photograph: Jonathan Wang for South China Morning Post/Getty images

According to the survey, meat is exported from countries like Oman (UAE) in Bangladesh (mainland China, India, and Myanmar), Ecuador (from Peru), India, Madagascar, Madagascar, Mouritania, Myanmar (Thailand). , UAE and Yemen. Maximum price for dried meat – $ 10/kg – found in Bangladesh and Myanmar, when fresh meat reached Benin, Mexico, Brazil and Congo’s Republic of $ 8/kg, with which. M. Mobular And M. Alfreddy Most hunting species.

Gill plates are harvested in 4 countries across Africa and Asia, and it is mainly imported to the mainland China and Hong Kong, where a kg can spend $ 1,260. They also arrived in Singapore, South Korea and Thailand.

Researchers have also learned that even though 20 countries are involved in the international mobile trade, only five have reported quoting it, the convention of international trade in the endangered species of wildlife and plants. Since the 21st, CITES has allowed Mobula’s controlled trade in an attempt to prevent their extinction, but the meat and parts of these animals have not been reduced. Some researchers therefore suggest removing the business ban.

Housing care is also weak. Uninterrupted Biodiversity target By 20, 5 percent of the nations have called for their nation to be nominated as a marine protected area (MPA). MPAs have grown dramatically in the last 3 years, at present Only 16 percent of the marine houses Critical for sharks and rays fall inside an MPA and only percent percentage of these residences is the “no accept” zone, where fishing is completely forbidden.

This story was originally attended Wired in Spanish And have been translated from Spanish.

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