Ship: Seahorse
Name: Laura Sánchez
Date: 05/02/23
Ship’s Activity: Monitoring
Table 1. Panga counting done during the night of the 4th of February from 20:00 to 23:00 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 |
| 20:00 | 0 | 5 |
| 21:00 | 0 | 4 |
| 22:00 | 0 | 4 |
Table 2. Panga counting done during the 5th of February from 00:00 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 | |
| 06:00 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 07:00 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 08:00 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 09:00 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 10:00 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 11:00 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 12:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 18:00 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 19:00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Hour | Pangas Outside ZTA | |||
|
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | |
| 06:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 07:00 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 08:00 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
| 09:00 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| 10:00 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| 11:00 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 12:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13:00 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 14:00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 15:00 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16:00 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 17:00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 18:00 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| 19:00 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Total number of different pangas fishing today in the ZTA: 1.
We encountered less diver pangas today, there were 5 of them in the center of the ZTA for four hours; after then there was fog in the area. About 20 pangas crossed the area towards the northwest between 6:00 and 8:00.
At 7:30 a panga stopped in the central north area inside the ZTA; at the beginning we thought they had engine problems because we saw smoke coming out, but few minutes later they moved less than 200m and started to retrieve a net. We contacted the Navy and launched the drone; the net seemed to be a flounder net, which did not have any markers on the surface. They finished retrieving this net at 8:28 and moved again, but they stopped shortly after and started pulling another flounder net (inside the ZTA as well). A Navy vessel Interceptor arrived just before 9:00 to the panga location and they spoke with them and handled them something. Afterwards they stayed around until the panga finished retrieving this net at 9:40. The panga moved again close by to retrieve their third net, with the Interceptor behind them. Then the Interceptor left at 10:10 to San Felipe without making any other moves and before the panga had finished pulling their net. The panga finished at 10:30 and they left to San Felipe as well.
Figure 1. Panga activity in the ZTA today 5th of February.
Figure 2. Radar screenshot at 9:00, target 18 is the panga without ID retrieving a net next to the Interceptor.
