Ship: Seahorse
Name: Laura Sánchez
Date: 13/02/23
Ship’s Activity: Monitoring
Table 1. Panga counting done during the night of the 12th of February from 19:00 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 |
| 19:00 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 20:00 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Table 2. Panga counting done during the 13th 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 | 15 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 2 |
| 08:00 | 32 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 2 |
| 09:00 | 42 | 0 | 41 | 1 | 0 |
| 10:00 | 45 | 0 | 45 | 0 | 0 |
| 11:00 | 44 | 0 | 43 | 0 | 1 |
| 12:00 | 41 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 1 |
| 13:00 | 45 | 0 | 45 | 0 | 0 |
| 14:00 | 28 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 1 |
| 15:00 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| 16:00 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 |
| 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 | |
| 11:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13:00 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 15:00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 16:00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 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.
Total number of different pangas fishing today in the ZTA Buffer Zone: 0.
Today was another day with a lot of diving activity in the ZTA. Clam fishermen started to come out shortly after 6:00, and by 9:00 there was already more than 40 in the area. The maximum number seen during the day was 45 dive pangas.
At 9:00 we spotted one panga inside the ZTA that did not have a compressor on board (indicator that the fishermen are divers), but they ended up going east outside of the ZTA. The decrease and increase of numbers is due to the difficulty to confirm numbers of individual pangas in big clusters when the boat is in different corners of the ZTA.
Most of the divers left in the afternoon; we also spotted a Navy vessel Interceptor patrolling the area around 10:00.
Figure 1. Panga activity in the ZTA today 13th of February.
Figure 2. Radar screenshot at 10:00, with more than 40 diver pangas in the ZTA.
