Thousands of marine and land species — 39% of all marine mammal species, 891 types of fish, 154 shore bird species, 115 reptiles species and five types of sea turtles, including the 2,000-pound ...

President Donald Trump’s first-term push to open the Gulf of Mexico and other federal waters to fish farming has come to a halt in the early days of his second term. A federal judge in Washington ...

Experts believe fewer than 10 vaquita, the world’s smallest porpoise, survive in Mexico’s Gulf of California, also known as the Sea of Cortez, the only place the species lives. Illegal fishing has ...

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With an estimated less than 10 individuals alive, the vaquita porpoise of the Gulf of California is on the brink of ...

For the first time since researchers have been tracking the vaquita, the estimated number of individuals of this nearly extinct species of porpoise has increased. Vaquitas, found only in a ...

MONTEREY — Eighty-five years ago, to the week, the Western Flyer set sail for the Gulf of California. Amongst the crew were renowned author John Steinbeck and marine biologist Ed Ricketts, taking on ...

To spot a vaquita porpoise requires calm winds, clear skies and waters smooth as glass. But in September, those conditions were hard to come by off the coast of San Felipe, a small fishing town in ...

The Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission will change all mentions of the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America" in official records. The change follows an executive order issued by ...