Hi there, I'm Ravi Agrawal, your host of FP Live. You'll find our regular episode coming up shortly in your feed, but in addition to that, we have something different we want to share in case it might be of interest.

FP has several other podcasts, as you might know, and one of them is just debuting a new season. It's called The Catch,

and it's a really cool investigative series on Global Fishing. F.P. produces this in partnership

with the Walton Family Foundation. Now, in this season, reporter Ruxandra Guidi heads to the Gulf

of California in Mexico to see how conservation efforts to save an endangered porpoise have shaped the region and the livelihoods of local shrimp fishermen.

Check it out. Check out this new season in both English and Spanish, wherever you get your podcasts.

That's it from me for now, but for more FP live, just keep an eye

on the feed. Here's Ruxandra Guidi with the catch. If you've never heard of the Vakita,

you're missing out. It's hands down, one of the most adorable creatures you may imagine.

The Vakita porpoise is a small porpoise.

It's about my size, so I'm just over five feet tall and 120 pounds.

But I'm not nearly as attractive.

They're quite a lovely slender porpoise. They have dark eye patches and a sort of dark

lipstick. They've got sort of a got got got got a got thing going on. This is Dr. Barbara Taylor,

one of the world's foremost experts on Bakitas. I'm recently retired as a senior scientist for

NOAA fisheries, where I have been a marine conservation

biologist for the last 30 years. Dr. Taylor has been studying the Vakita, not just because she

loves marine mammals, but because this cute little porpoise happens to have a relatively small habitat,

just in northwestern Mexico in an area

called the Gulf of California. That's also home to a very priced blue shrimp, also known as

colossal shrimp. The blue shrimp of the Northern Gulf bring the highest price for any shrimp

product in the United States.

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