Ship: Seahorse
Name: Laura Sánchez
Date: 17/01/23
Ship’s Activity: Monitoring
Table 1. Panga counting done during the 17th of January from 09:00 to 20:00 with radar observations. The hours not represented in this table correspond to hours when no pangas were seen in the ZTA.
| Hour | Panga Inside ZTA | |||
|
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | |
| 10:00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11:00 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 12:00 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 13:00 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 14:00 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 15:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 17:00 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 18:00 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Hour | Panga Outside ZTA | |||
|
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | |
| 10:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12:00 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 13:00 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| 14:00 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 15:00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17:00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 18:00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
We entered an empty ZTA shortly after 9am. We spotted a trawler around the Vaquita Refuge but they didn’t have their nets in the water. Around 10:35 we saw a few pangas inside the ZTA, and we filmed one (El Noreño) pulling a net of what it seem a large mesh size, maybe a large corvina net or totoaba. A SITREP was sent and the Navy sent the Interceptor about an hour later, which approached to another panga (Gianna Camila) that was pulling a corvina net inside the ZTA. With the drone footage, we saw many rays and several sharks being pulled in that net. El Noreño approached then to a buoy where they had another net, and the Navy instructed the two pangas to finish pulling their nets and leave the area.
The afternoon and evening were quiet, with a few pangas crossing the ZTA and a diver panga that was checked by a defender Navy ship around 14:00.
Figure 1. Panga activity in the ZTA today.
Figure 2. Radar screenshot at 13:00. Navy vessel Interceptor (target 55) is checking on the panga target 56 and instructed them to pick up their net.
