Ship: Seahorse
Name: Laura Sánchez
Date: 12/02/23
Ship’s Activity: Monitoring
Table 1. Panga counting done during the night of the 11th of February from 17:00 to 00:00 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 ZTA Buffer Zone | Pangas Outside ZTA |
| 17:00 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 19:00 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Table 2. Panga counting done during the 12th 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 | |
| 07:00 | 12 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 3 |
| 08:00 | 20 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 2 |
| 09:00 | 18 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| 10:00 | 18 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| 11:00 | 18 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| 12:00 | 30 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 0 |
| 13:00 | 33 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 0 |
| 14:00 | 30 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 0 |
| 15:00 | 18 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 4 |
| 16:00 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 17:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 18:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Hour | Pangas ZTA Buffer Zone | |||
|
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | |
| 10:00 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 11:00 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 12:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 15:00 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 16:00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 18:00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Hour | Pangas Outside ZTA | |||
|
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | |
| 10:00 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 11:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12:00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 17:00 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 18:00 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 19:00 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Total number of different pangas fishing today in the ZTA: 0.
Total number of different pangas fishing today in the ZTA Buffer Zone: 0.
We arrived to the ZTA on the evening of the 11th of February, to document the almost absolute presence of pangas during the night. The morning of the 12th was a bit rough for the pangas, but we started to see divers arriving just before 7:00 at the center of the ZTA. The sea got calmer during the next hours of the morning, and we headed to the north point of the ZTA to discover a group of divers at the 1NM buffer zone. By that time, it was a bit difficult to see the diver pangas in the center of the ZTA, but as we approached back, we confirmed their numbers. The groups had increased on number to about 33 pangas; most of them were in the center but a few of them were located a bit more to the northwest. They stayed in the area until between 15:00 and 16:00. At 17:00 we spotted a shrimp trawler in the area, not fishing but transiting.
Figure 1. Panga activity in the ZTA today 12th of February.
Figure 1. Radar screenshot at 13:00, with more than 30 diver pangas in the ZTA.
