The six-day trip that originated in San Felipe was nearing its end when the three failed to return to the mother ship after an afternoon of fishing the island’s shores aboard a 22-foot skiff.

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Sunshine Rodríguez Peña, the head of the largest federation of fishing cooperatives in San Felipe told a group of Mexican reporters that “this has a name, and it’s called Semarnat.” ...

Instead, illegal fishing in the area is widespread and happening in plain view. Even as a team of scientists from Mexico and the United States arrived in San Felipe for this year’s count ...

In the Mexican fishing town of San Felipe, the carcasses of totoaba are discarded at this informal dump. Vaquita may get tangled and drown in nets intended for the giant fish. New sanctions ...