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Research associate Kim Bassos-Hull, who obtained her master’s degree through work with the Sarasota Dolphin Research for transfer to sanctuary facilities near San
Program, helps a high school student complete a data form during a photo-identification survey. Felipe, Mexico. There the porpoises will
be under human care and protection until
Today, fewer than 30 remain due to Mexico is working to crack down on the government of Mexico determines it is
illegal fishing for endangered totoaba drum the nets, but that has not stopped the swift safe for them to return to the wild. As of
fish to supply swim bladders to Chinese decline of the vaquita population due to this writing, Wells and his team are in the
markets. Vaquitas become entangled in ongoing illegal activities. Sarasota program process of trying to catch the remaining
totoaba fishing nets and drown. staff are leading efforts to catch porpoises vaquita porpoises from the waters where
they are exposed to illegal netting and
move them to the sanctuary.
Elsewhere, in the waters around Hong
Kong, the population of Chinese white
dolphins is declining due to exceptionally
high levels of pollution, habitat alteration,
and other human activities. The
Sarasota Dolphin Research Program is
helping dolphin researchers in the region
develop the Pearl River Estuary Dolphin
Identification System. Modeled after the
Sarasota program’s Gulf of Mexico Dolphin
Identification System, this program allows
many researchers who spot different
dolphins at different times to match
dorsal fins and “connect the dots” for the
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