Ship: Seahorse
Name: Laura Sánchez
Date: 23/01/23
Ship’s Activity: Monitoring
Table 1. Panga counting done during the night of the 22nd of January from 18:00 to 23:00 with radar observations. The hours not represented in this table correspond to hours when no pangas were seen.
Hour | Pangas Inside ZTA | ||||
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | Crossing | |
18:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
19:00 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
20:00 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
21:00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Hour | Pangas Outside ZTA | |||
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | |
18:00 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 25 |
19:00 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
20:00 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
21:00 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
We arrived to the ZTA around 18:00 in the evening of the 22nd of January, and we spotted pangas fishing outside of the ZTA in the north area. At 18:30 we started to see several pangas from that group crossing the ZTA heading towards San Felipe, and we saw one that was manipulating a net inside the panga while they were moving.
Table 2. Panga counting done during the 23rd of January from 00:00 to 17:00 with radar observations. There were no pangas seen either inside or outside of the ZTA.
Pangas Inside ZTA | ||||
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | Crossing |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pangas Outside ZTA | |||
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total number of different pangas fishing today in the ZTA: 0.
Today we experience winds up to 40 knots and the sea was quite rough. We did not see any pangas or other vessels inside of the ZTA and neither outside.

Figure 1. Radar screenshot at 08:00.