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Totoaba Extinction
Estimated extinction time: near future.
 The totoaba, which is found exclusively in the northern Gulf of California, used the Colorado River delta as spawning and nursery grounds. With the Colorado River delta devastated due to the overexploitation of its waters by the United States, the fishery crashed and the totoaba is now the only marine fish listed under CITES and ESA as it faces extinction.
Contreras-Balderas, S. & Almada-Villela, P. 1996. Totoaba macdonaldi. In: IUCN 2003. 2003 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
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