The sea of Cortez, one of the most beautiful oceans in Mexico, or as known as “the world's aquarium” said famously by oceanographer Jacques Cousteau. The ocean of Cortez is one of the richest waters of the pacific ocean, attracting marine life and people for its incredible biodiversity. The ocean of the gulf of Mexico, including the ocean of Cortez is a Mid-Oceanic Ridge. Because of the rip that happens in between California all through the gulf of Mexico. When that happened it also helped us research the study of the earth crust and the earth's plates, which are now called plate tectonics. 

The sea of Cortez is a high-level sea which attracts a lot of sea life. But in the 90s the marine life was nearly gone, because there was so much fishing going on that the sea of Cortez nearly didn’t have half of the population that it used to have until in 1995 a marine protected area called Cabo pulmo national park was established. which they established that commercial fishing was prohibited. Since then the population of fish has doubled. There have also been other corporations that have helped the sea of Cortez in early 2017 The Pew Bertarelli Ocean Legacy joined local partner Beta Diversidad to work with local communities, fishermen’s groups, non-governmental organizations, and scientists to call for the creation of a Marine Protected Area (MPA). help create laws of how to take care of the ocean.

Now the sea of Cortez is one of the most growing sea life oceans in the world. A hotspot for top ocean predators, including great white sharks, scalloped hammerheads, whale sharks, thresher sharks, and silky sharks. They are persistent, and have helped support a strong.Their presence has helped support a strong recreational dive industry which people all over the world go to see.

Every year around gray whales migrate more than 15,000km between the summer for their feeding grounds in the arctic between the nursing ground in the coastal lagoon of the southern Baja peninsula.

The sea also has a region feeding grounds for five of the seven sea turtle species, but it also is very dangerous for them because of legal fishing and are often killed, which is a tragedy to hear about this, but the organization is trying to prevent this from happening by creating aquariums for turtles so the population could keep on growing.

The ocean is also known for having more than 1000 dolphins and the ocean of Cortez also species of jumping mobula rays, and colonies of sea lions along the coastline. For fishes, it has nearly 900 species of fish; at least 27 species of seabirds breed in the island. The sea of Cortez also serves as major feeding and breeding zones for large marine mammals, including blue, humpback, gray, sperm, pilot, Baird’s beaked, and Bryde’s whales.

The corporation MPA also provides dwelling stocks of pacific sardines which helps out the majority species to rely on in the area, including marine mammals, sharks, tuna, bell fish, and sea turtles, providing these region of what safeguard, rich, marine life, and solutions the resources that help the local ecosystem.

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