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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.

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