# @centerforbiodiv on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CzB7xf-s6Dl
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/9620717-centerforbiodiv-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/d98297e469.jpg
- **Posted:** 2023-10-30T16:48:33.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Center for Biological Diversity (@CenterForBioDiv) — https://gondola.cc/CenterForBioDiv

## Caption

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol recently nabbed their second-largest seizure of 91 swim bladders from the endangered totoaba fish. Coveted on the black market, the bladders — worth about $1 million — were in a commercial shipment of fish fillets. 

The totoaba fish is subject to a CITES commercial trade ban because fishing for them harms the critically endangered #vaquita porpoise.

Vaquitas are about the size of small humans, topping out at about 5 feet long and 120 pounds. Their numbers have plummeted to just 10 individuals — making vaquitas both the smallest most endangered porpoise on Earth.

You can help: Demand better law enforcement to help save vaquitas at the link in our bio. 

📹 courtesy Dan Soibelman/Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
#marineconservation #porpoise

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- **Views:** 2,232
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## Tags

porpoise, marineconservation, vaquita

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