Article 46QPA Mexican fishermen attack Sea Shepherd vessel protecting vaquita porpoise

Mexican fishermen attack Sea Shepherd vessel protecting vaquita porpoise

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The Sea Shepherd environmental group has published video showing an attack by about two dozen small fishing boats on the group's vessel Farley Mowat in Mexico's Gulf of California.

The fishermen in the Gulf, also known as the Sea of Cortez, oppose environmentalists trying to protect the vaquita marina, the world's smallest and most endangered porpoise.

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