News Summary March 22, 2018
Today's Main Story: Conservation Groups Seek to Ban Mexican Shrimp, Other Seafood to Save Endangered Vaquita Porpoise
Today's lead item is a report that the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Animal Welfare Institute have filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of International Trade in an effort to ban shrimp and other seafood imported from Mexico’s upper Gulf of California that has been harvested with gillnets. The fear is that the vaquita porpoise will become extinct if Mexico does not change their fishing practices ...
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