Il Vaquita, per chi non lo sapesse, è il più piccolo e il più raro cetaceo del mondo. Una piccola focena che, come tutte le focene, non vive bene in cattività e può essere salvata solo nel suo luogo di appartenenza: il Golfo di California.
Questa povera bestia era presente in circa 600 esemplari fino a 20 anni fa. Poi sono arrivati gli interessi cinesi: un grande pesce che per loro è molto importante, tanto da pagarlo profumatamente. I pescatori di frodo messicani non ci hanno pensato due volte e hanno buttato a mare delle dannate reti che catturano tutto. Anche i vaquita, che MAI erano stati minacciati di estinzione, con tutte le porcherie che gli esseri umani hanno fatto.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaquita
The vaquita (Spanish: [baˈkita]; Phocoena sinus) is a species of porpoise endemic to the northern part of the Gulf of California that is on the brink of extinction. Based on beached skulls found in 1950 and 1951, the scientific description of the species was published in 1958.[3] As of March 2018 only about 12-15 individuals remain. The word vaquita is Spanish for "little cow". Other names include cochito (Spanish for "little pig"), desert porpoise, vaquita porpoise, Gulf of California harbor porpoise, Gulf of California porpoise, and gulf porpoise. Since the baiji (Lipotes vexillifer) is thought to have gone extinct in 2006,[4] the vaquita has taken on the title of the most endangered cetacean in the world.[5] It has been listed as critically endangered since 1996.[2] The population was estimated at 600 in 1997,[2] below 100 in 2014,[6][7] approximately 60 in 2015,[8] around 30 in November 2016,[9][10] and only 12-15 in March 2018,[11] leading to the conclusion that the species will soon be extinct unless drastic action is taken.[12]
Ma la cosa che mi fa girare le palle di più, e che mi porta ad un chiaro sentimento di disprezzo per quella Cina a cui tutti piegano la testa (e chi se lo ricorda più il Dalai Lama). I pesci, di grosse dimensioni che vengono massacrati per udite udite, prendere la vescica natatoria, che poi è usata per fare intrugli per quel cazzo di medicina cinese, una delle idiozie più grandi mai concepite dal genere umano (non mi riferisco all'agopuntura e simili, ma proprio a quelle stronzate con ossa di tigre, corno di rinoceronte e ali di pipistrello varie). Del resto la Cina è già nota per la sua fame per le pinne di pescecane, no?
https://www.raiplay.it/video/2018/12/Aspettando-Geo-Geo-e7a25dc4-d7a1-461c-a5db-781ed649d0eb.html
Meno male che ci sono quelli di Sea Shepherd che cercano di salvare il salvabile.
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Shepherd_Conservation_Society
Il Totoaba o totuava (Totoaba macdonaldi) è un pesce marino, il più grande membro della famiglia degliSciaenidae,[1] che vive principalmente nel Golfo di California in Messico. In precedenza abbondante e oggetto di una pesca intensiva, il Totoaba è diventata raro, ed è quotato al CITES[2] (la Lista Rossa IUCN delle specie minacciate)[3] e all'Endangered Species Act (ESA). Questo pesce è molto consumato in Cina, dove viene usato nella medicina tradizionale locale per le sue presunte proprietà contro le emorragie.[4] Inoltre viene chiamato anche la Cocaina Acquatica ed è oggetto di pesca di frodo.[5]
Questa è la striminzita pagina di wikipedia italiana. Se uno va a vedere l'omologo inglese, allora troverò che è l'unica specie del suo genere. Ecco quel che dice: serve la traduzione? Probabilmente no.
The totoaba can grow up to 2.0 m in length and 100 kg in weight. Their diet consists of finned fish and crustaceans. Individuals may live up to 15 years, but sexual maturity is usually not reached until the fish are 6–7 years old. As totoabas spawn only once a year, population growth is slow, with a minimum population doubling time of 4.5 to 15 years.[3] The totoaba spawn in the Colorado River delta, which also serves as a nursery for the young fish.
The totoaba population is found in two distinct groups. Larval and juvenile stages occupy the Colorado delta, while the adult breeding population lives for most of the year in deeper water towards the middle of the Gulf of California. The adult population migrates to the Colorado delta in April and May to spawn. One-year-old totoabas are metabolically most efficient in brackish water of about 20 parts per thousand (ppt) salinity, a level that occurred naturally in the delta before the diversion of water from the river that occurred in the middle of the 20th century.[5]
Threats
The diversion of water from the Colorado River within the United States leaves little or no fresh water to reach the delta, greatly altering the environment in the delta, and the salinity of the upper Sea of Cortez. The flow of fresh water to the mouth of the Colorado since the completion of the Hoover and Glen Canyon dams has been only about 4% of the average flow during the period from 1910 to 1920. This is considered to be a major cause of the depletion of the totoaba population.[5][6][7][8] With the loss of the freshwater flow from the river, salinity in the delta is usually 35 ppt or higher.[5]
Poaching
Another threat to the totoaba is from human poaching: the swim bladder is a valuable commodity, as it is considered a delicacy in Chinese cuisine; the meat is also sought-after for making soups. It can fetch high prices – 200 bladders may be sold for $3.6 million at 2013 prices – as it is erroneously believed by many Chinese to be a treatment for fertility, circulatory, and skin problems.[9][10] The illegal totoaba fishery also threatens the vaquita, a critically endangered porpoise endemic to the northern Gulf of California that appears to be doomed to extinction unless the setting of gillnets in its habitat can be halted.[11]
Conservation
On 16 April 2015, Enrique Peña Nieto, the President of Mexico, announced a program of rescue and conservation of the vaquita and the totoaba, including closures and financial support to fishermen in the area.[12] Some commentators believe the measures fall short of what is needed to save the vaquita.[13]
Commercial fishing for totoaba began in the 1920s. The catch reached 2,000 metric tons in 1943, but had fallen to only 50 tons in 1975, when Mexico protected the totoaba and banned the fishery. Anecdotal evidence suggests that totoabas were very abundant prior to the start of the commercial fishery, but no hard evidence now indicates natural population size. Recent studies indicate that the totoaba population has stabilized at a low level, perhaps a bit larger than when the commercial fishery was banned in 1975. Totoabas are still caught as by-catch in fishing for other finned fish and for shrimp, and in illegal fishing for totoaba directly. Some totoabas are illegally exported to the United States, often misidentified as white seabass.[5][6][7] The government of Baja California has authorized commercial raising of totoaba in fish farms.[14][15]
the swim bladder is a valuable commodity, as it is considered a delicacy in Chinese cuisine; the meat is also sought-after for making soups. It can fetch high prices – 200 bladders may be sold for $3.6 million at 2013 prices – as it is erroneously believed by many Chinese to be a treatment for fertility, circulatory, and skin problems
INSOMMA, 200 vesciche natatorie valgono 3,6 mln di dollari. Avete capito bene. 18.000 per vescica, per trattare la fertilità, apparato circolatorio e pelle. Pagliacci. E ovviamente questo significa anche massacrare, nelle reti, altri animali.
Questa è la ragione per cui la Vaquita è stata messa a rischio estinzione gravissimo, SOLO per queste stronzate.
Per cui quest'anno dedicherò tutto quel che posso per fare i wargame pro-ambientalisti.
Inizio subito: iscrizione a Sea Shepherd, che io pensavo erroneamente collegata direttamente a Greenpeace.
Questa povera bestia era presente in circa 600 esemplari fino a 20 anni fa. Poi sono arrivati gli interessi cinesi: un grande pesce che per loro è molto importante, tanto da pagarlo profumatamente. I pescatori di frodo messicani non ci hanno pensato due volte e hanno buttato a mare delle dannate reti che catturano tutto. Anche i vaquita, che MAI erano stati minacciati di estinzione, con tutte le porcherie che gli esseri umani hanno fatto.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaquita
The vaquita (Spanish: [baˈkita]; Phocoena sinus) is a species of porpoise endemic to the northern part of the Gulf of California that is on the brink of extinction. Based on beached skulls found in 1950 and 1951, the scientific description of the species was published in 1958.[3] As of March 2018 only about 12-15 individuals remain. The word vaquita is Spanish for "little cow". Other names include cochito (Spanish for "little pig"), desert porpoise, vaquita porpoise, Gulf of California harbor porpoise, Gulf of California porpoise, and gulf porpoise. Since the baiji (Lipotes vexillifer) is thought to have gone extinct in 2006,[4] the vaquita has taken on the title of the most endangered cetacean in the world.[5] It has been listed as critically endangered since 1996.[2] The population was estimated at 600 in 1997,[2] below 100 in 2014,[6][7] approximately 60 in 2015,[8] around 30 in November 2016,[9][10] and only 12-15 in March 2018,[11] leading to the conclusion that the species will soon be extinct unless drastic action is taken.[12]
Ma la cosa che mi fa girare le palle di più, e che mi porta ad un chiaro sentimento di disprezzo per quella Cina a cui tutti piegano la testa (e chi se lo ricorda più il Dalai Lama). I pesci, di grosse dimensioni che vengono massacrati per udite udite, prendere la vescica natatoria, che poi è usata per fare intrugli per quel cazzo di medicina cinese, una delle idiozie più grandi mai concepite dal genere umano (non mi riferisco all'agopuntura e simili, ma proprio a quelle stronzate con ossa di tigre, corno di rinoceronte e ali di pipistrello varie). Del resto la Cina è già nota per la sua fame per le pinne di pescecane, no?
https://www.raiplay.it/video/2018/12/Aspettando-Geo-Geo-e7a25dc4-d7a1-461c-a5db-781ed649d0eb.html
Meno male che ci sono quelli di Sea Shepherd che cercano di salvare il salvabile.
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Shepherd_Conservation_Society
Il Totoaba o totuava (Totoaba macdonaldi) è un pesce marino, il più grande membro della famiglia degliSciaenidae,[1] che vive principalmente nel Golfo di California in Messico. In precedenza abbondante e oggetto di una pesca intensiva, il Totoaba è diventata raro, ed è quotato al CITES[2] (la Lista Rossa IUCN delle specie minacciate)[3] e all'Endangered Species Act (ESA). Questo pesce è molto consumato in Cina, dove viene usato nella medicina tradizionale locale per le sue presunte proprietà contro le emorragie.[4] Inoltre viene chiamato anche la Cocaina Acquatica ed è oggetto di pesca di frodo.[5]
Questa è la striminzita pagina di wikipedia italiana. Se uno va a vedere l'omologo inglese, allora troverò che è l'unica specie del suo genere. Ecco quel che dice: serve la traduzione? Probabilmente no.
The totoaba can grow up to 2.0 m in length and 100 kg in weight. Their diet consists of finned fish and crustaceans. Individuals may live up to 15 years, but sexual maturity is usually not reached until the fish are 6–7 years old. As totoabas spawn only once a year, population growth is slow, with a minimum population doubling time of 4.5 to 15 years.[3] The totoaba spawn in the Colorado River delta, which also serves as a nursery for the young fish.
The totoaba population is found in two distinct groups. Larval and juvenile stages occupy the Colorado delta, while the adult breeding population lives for most of the year in deeper water towards the middle of the Gulf of California. The adult population migrates to the Colorado delta in April and May to spawn. One-year-old totoabas are metabolically most efficient in brackish water of about 20 parts per thousand (ppt) salinity, a level that occurred naturally in the delta before the diversion of water from the river that occurred in the middle of the 20th century.[5]
Threats
The diversion of water from the Colorado River within the United States leaves little or no fresh water to reach the delta, greatly altering the environment in the delta, and the salinity of the upper Sea of Cortez. The flow of fresh water to the mouth of the Colorado since the completion of the Hoover and Glen Canyon dams has been only about 4% of the average flow during the period from 1910 to 1920. This is considered to be a major cause of the depletion of the totoaba population.[5][6][7][8] With the loss of the freshwater flow from the river, salinity in the delta is usually 35 ppt or higher.[5]
Poaching
Another threat to the totoaba is from human poaching: the swim bladder is a valuable commodity, as it is considered a delicacy in Chinese cuisine; the meat is also sought-after for making soups. It can fetch high prices – 200 bladders may be sold for $3.6 million at 2013 prices – as it is erroneously believed by many Chinese to be a treatment for fertility, circulatory, and skin problems.[9][10] The illegal totoaba fishery also threatens the vaquita, a critically endangered porpoise endemic to the northern Gulf of California that appears to be doomed to extinction unless the setting of gillnets in its habitat can be halted.[11]
Conservation
On 16 April 2015, Enrique Peña Nieto, the President of Mexico, announced a program of rescue and conservation of the vaquita and the totoaba, including closures and financial support to fishermen in the area.[12] Some commentators believe the measures fall short of what is needed to save the vaquita.[13]
Commercial fishing for totoaba began in the 1920s. The catch reached 2,000 metric tons in 1943, but had fallen to only 50 tons in 1975, when Mexico protected the totoaba and banned the fishery. Anecdotal evidence suggests that totoabas were very abundant prior to the start of the commercial fishery, but no hard evidence now indicates natural population size. Recent studies indicate that the totoaba population has stabilized at a low level, perhaps a bit larger than when the commercial fishery was banned in 1975. Totoabas are still caught as by-catch in fishing for other finned fish and for shrimp, and in illegal fishing for totoaba directly. Some totoabas are illegally exported to the United States, often misidentified as white seabass.[5][6][7] The government of Baja California has authorized commercial raising of totoaba in fish farms.[14][15]
the swim bladder is a valuable commodity, as it is considered a delicacy in Chinese cuisine; the meat is also sought-after for making soups. It can fetch high prices – 200 bladders may be sold for $3.6 million at 2013 prices – as it is erroneously believed by many Chinese to be a treatment for fertility, circulatory, and skin problems
INSOMMA, 200 vesciche natatorie valgono 3,6 mln di dollari. Avete capito bene. 18.000 per vescica, per trattare la fertilità, apparato circolatorio e pelle. Pagliacci. E ovviamente questo significa anche massacrare, nelle reti, altri animali.
Questa è la ragione per cui la Vaquita è stata messa a rischio estinzione gravissimo, SOLO per queste stronzate.
Per cui quest'anno dedicherò tutto quel che posso per fare i wargame pro-ambientalisti.
Inizio subito: iscrizione a Sea Shepherd, che io pensavo erroneamente collegata direttamente a Greenpeace.