US Court upholds ban on Mexican seafood imports dangerous for Vaquita

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided to uphold a preliminary order implementing a federal law that requires a ban on seafood imported from Mexico’s Upper Gulf of California and caught with gillnets that drown the vaquita porpoise.

The Earth’s most endangered marine mammals, vaquita porpoises, has won a battle against extinction. A third U.S. court decision kept in place the four-month-old ban on importing Mexican shrimp and other seafood caught with gillnets that drown the...

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