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Ship: Seahorse

Name: Laura Sánchez

Date: 29/01/23

Ship’s Activity: Monitoring

Table 1. Panga counting done during the night of the 28th of January from 20:00 to 22:00 with radar observations. The hours not represented in this table correspond to hours when no pangas were seen in the ZTA or outside.

Hour Pangas ZTA Pangas Outside ZTA
21:00 0 1
22:00 0 2

Table 2. Panga counting done during the 29th of January from 01:00 to 19:00 with radar observations. The hours not represented in this table correspond to hours when no pangas were seen in the ZTA or outside.

Hour Pangas Inside ZTA
 

Total

Net Fishing Divers Potential Net Fishing Crossing
07:00 20 0 20 0 0
08:00 20 0 20 0 0
09:00 20 0 20 0 0
10:00 21 0 21 0 0
11:00 20 0 20 0 0
12:00 17 0 17 0 0
13:00 17 0 17 0 0
14:00 13 0 13 0 0
15:00 3 0 1 0 2
16:00 4 0 4 0 0
17:00 1 0 1 0 0
18:00 1 0 1 0 0
19:00 1 0 1 0 0
Hour Pangas Outside ZTA
 

Total

Net Fishing Divers Potential Net Fishing
03:00 1 0 0 1
11:00 2 0 0 2
14:00 3 0 0 3
15:00 2 0 0 2
16:00 1 0 0 1
17:00 2 0 0 2
18:00 1 0 0 1
19:00 2 0 0 2

Total number of different pangas fishing today in the ZTA: 0.

We started the day with dense fog around the ship at 6:00. After an hour, we saw some targets in the radar to which we approached, but seemed to be interferences due to the fog. At 8:00 when the fog had cleared, we discovered they were pangas. We first counted around 20 pangas in the center of the ZTA, and when we launched the drone we saw that they were all divers. The majority of them stayed in that area for six hours, leaving little by little.

Figure 1. Panga activity in the ZTA today 29th of January.

Figure 2. Radar screenshot at 9:00 with 20 diver pangas in several clusters.

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