43KK jpeg Totoaba being handled on a research vessel.
John R. Hendrickson photo

36KK jpeg
Dean A. Hendrickson photo

36KK jpeg According to photographer, L.M. Huey, this huge totoaba photographed on the beach at San Felipe, Baja California in April, 1926, weighed in at 132 pounds after head and tail had been removed. (photo data provided by Dr. Lloyd Findley, 2003).

32KK jpeg This photo, taken by L.M. Huey or an associate, at Puerto Peñasco in February 1934, was provided by Dr. John Hendrickson who had reported it (Hendrickson, J.R 1979. Totoaba: Sacrifice in the Gulf of California - Letter to my Grandchildren. Oceans. 12: 14-18) as a mass of totoaba. Other publications have used the same photo and species identification. Dr. Lloyd Findley has since pointed out that he has seen other photos by L.M. Huey taken at the same time that provide a more complete sequence of the event, and include a photo of the person in this “boil” picture (Phillip Lickty) afterwards standing on shore holding up several specimens that he had caught by hand from the frenzied group. Dr. Findley (pers. comm. 2003) reports that the specimens in that photo are clearly identifiable as Cynoscion othonopterus (Gulf corvina or corvina golfina).

40KK jpeg Totoaba slaughter.
John R. Hendrickson photo

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