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Totoaba

Educational resources on Totoaba

Totoaba or Totoaba macdonaldi is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Critically Endangered due to A1abce+2bce, B1+2ce+3ad . IUCN Profile of the Totoaba

Academic web links for the Totoaba.


Projecting viability of Totoaba macdonaldi, a population with unknown ...
Projecting viability of Totoaba macdonaldi, a population with unknown age-dependent variability •
ice.ucdavis.edu/node/214

Dried-Up Colorado Takes Toll On Giant Mexican Fish
However, the totoaba population has not bounced back since the ban. Shrimp and gillnet fishermen probably take a share of protected totoaba and don't report the by-catch to
www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/InNews/totoaba2008.html

Earstones Tell Fishes' Tale In Colorado River Estuary
Release from: Mari N. Jensen University of Arizona News During their tender youth, both the endangered fish species totoaba and the commercially important gulf corvina require the
www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/InNews/earstones2004.html

Factors Affecting The Recovery of The Vaquita
The totoaba fishery was closed in 1975 by the Mexican government as a result of marked declines in the totoaba stock (Arvizu and Chavez, 1972; Flanagan and Hendrickson, 1976).
www.sci.sdsu.edu/salton/VaquitaRecovery_Barlow.html

New Page 2 [www.geo.arizona.edu]
The totoaba. Figure 9. Totoaba, endangered fish in Colorado Delta area. (Image from http://www.ens.uabc.mx/Reportaies/Totoaba/) Totoaba, Totoaba macdonaldi, (Fig. 9) are large
www.geo.arizona.edu/ceam/Hecold/hecolcd.htm

Colorado River Delta | brief introduction
Two marine animals have been listed as endangered species, including the world's most endangered marine mammal, the vaquita porpoise (Phocoena sinus) and the totoaba fish (Totoaba
www.ag.arizona.edu/colorado_river_delta/delta/intro.html

Rowell, K
Rowell, K., Flessa, K.W. and Dettman, D.L., 2004. Isotopic logs from the Sea of Cortez: Environmental and life-history records from Totoaba and Gulf Corvina otoliths.
www.geo.arizona.edu/ceam/Rowell.htm

The Vaquita - Gulf of California harbor porpoise
Catching totoaba is now forbidden because it has been nearly fished to extinction, but fishermen continue to seek it, inadvertently killing vaquita in the process.
www.sci.sdsu.edu/salton/NiilerVaquitaGulfof%20CA.html

Marine Discovery Gulf of California
The northern gulf has many endemic species including populations of the vaquita (the endangered harbor porpoise) and the totoaba (a large
marinediscovery.arizona.edu/gulf.html

micro*scope - version 6.0 - March, 2006
No description of Totoaba available. Contact site management to have description written.
starcentral.mbl.edu/microscope/portal.php?pagetitle=classification&BLOCKID=6&CHILDID=3211&...







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