Coordination of efforts to protect the dolphin

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In partnership with Wildlife Connection, Profepa and the Marine Corp Administration collaborating to guard fishing activities

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Puerto Vallarta Jalisco News.- The director of Environment and Ecology of Puerto Vallarta, Luis González Guevara, confirmed that they are already collaborating with Wildlife Connection, around the strategies for the protection of the dolphin and the integration of a database for their identification, while they solicit to the Department of Environmental Protection (Profepa) and the Marine Corp Administration, to make coordinated actions for keeping watch over the fishing activities in the shores of the municipality and thus avoid the extinction or damage of this specie.

He pointed out that up to date the death of three cetaceans has been registered, the last one was found last Tuesday 200 meters from the coast line of Palo María, it being an adult female of a length of approximately 1.90, in an advanced state of decomposition, without signs of lacerations or marks which suggests that it was a death by natural causes. However pointed out González Guevara, it is not yet certain if the death could have been caused by non allowed fishing practices, motive for which coordinated actions are promoted for its vigilance.

What he did discard definitively, was that the quality of the water could be the cause of death, as she was found in a certified beach that is monitored each week with positive results.

The official indicated that even though the case is not severe, it is a topic which must be attended, for which there is the support of Wildlife Connection, winner of the Ecological Merit 2013. The organization has experience working with this specie, as well as in identifying its different groups with the objective of creating a database at a local level in which the points where the deaths are being detected can be registered, of dolphins as well as of turtles. This information will be incorporated into a national database.

Furthermore, he pointed out that the proposal was delivered to the Profepa and the Marine Corps Administration to develop "coordinated actions geared towards the vigilance and verification of net fishing. It is going to be made randomly and we are going to go to different beaches" with the end of "determining what is happening, what are we finding, legal and illegal fishing activities, what type of net is being used, if it is allowed or not and if it is closed season".

Likewise, there will be a promotion of an adequate execution of touristic and recreational activities so that the life and health of this cetacean is not put into risk, as well as of the whales and other species which inhabit or visit this bay. The population also needs to be aware that they have to keep the passageway of rivers and streams clean, as the trash ends up at sea and could cause the obstruction of the digestive system of these sea creatures which could end in their death.

Luis González commented that from the three dead dolphins found up to now in the coast of Vallarta, only one of them, which was a calf, had propeller marks, for which he recommended that those who make use of propeller boats, that if they detect or get near a group of dolphins, that they do so at a moderate speed, especially in between the months of May and August which is when they are born and run a greater risk of being hurt by the propellers.

[readon1 url="http://www.nnc.mx/notas/1371715306.php"]Source:NNC - Translated by Rene Tripp[/readon1]