Article 420 Federal Criminal Code

A penalty of one to nine years of imprisonment and the equivalent of three hundred to three thousand days fine shall be imposed on anyone who unlawfully:

I.Captures, damages or deprives of life any specimen of sea turtle or marine mammal, or collects or stores in any form their products or by-products;

II.Captures, transforms, stockpiles, transports or damages specimens of aquatic species declared under closed season;

II Bis. Intentionally captures, transforms, stockpiles, transports, destroys or trades with the aquatic species known as abalone, shrimp, sea cucumber and lobster, within or outside the closed seasons, without having the corresponding authorization, in an amount exceeding 10 kilograms in weight.

III.Carries out hunting, fishing or capture activities with a non-permitted means, of any specimen of a wild fauna species, or places at risk the biological viability of a wild population or species;

IV.Carries out any activity for purposes of trafficking, or captures, possesses, transports, stockpiles, introduces into the country or extracts from it, any specimen, its products or by-products and other genetic resources, of a species of wild flora or fauna, terrestrial or aquatic, under closed season, considered endemic, threatened, in danger of extinction, subject to special protection, or regulated by an international treaty to which Mexico is a party, or

V.Damages any specimen of the species of wild flora or fauna, terrestrial or aquatic, indicated in the preceding section.

An additional penalty of up to three more years of imprisonment and up to one thousand additional days fine shall be applied when the conducts described in this article are carried out in or affect a natural protected area, or when they are carried out for commercial purposes.

In the cases provided for in section IV of this article and section X of article 2 of the Federal Law against Organized Crime (Ley Federal contra la Delincuencia Organizada), the penalty of five to fifteen years of imprisonment and the equivalent of three thousand to six thousand days fine shall be imposed when it involves any specimen, parts, derivatives, products or by-products of the species totoaba macdonaldi.