Ship: Seahorse
Name: Laura Sánchez
Date: 18/02/23
Ship’s Activity: Monitoring
Table 1. Panga counting done during the night of the 17th of February from 19:00 to 00:00 with radar observations. There were no pangas seen either inside or outside of the ZTA.
| Total | Pangas ZTA | Pangas ZTA Buffer Zone | Pangas Outside ZTA |
| 0 | 0 | 0 |
Table 2. Panga counting done during the 18th 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 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 08:00 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| 09:00 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| 10:00 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| 11:00 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 12:00 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 13:00 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| 14:00 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 18:00 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 19:00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Hour | Pangas ZTA Buffer Zone | |||
|
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | |
| 14:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 17:00 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 18:00 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Total number of different pangas fishing today in the ZTA: 1.
Total number of different pangas fishing today in the ZTA Buffer Zone: 0.
| Hour | Pangas Outside ZTA | |||
|
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | |
| 06:00 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 10 |
| 07:00 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 12 |
| 08:00 | 25 | 5 | 0 | 20 |
| 09:00 | 28 | 5 | 0 | 23 |
| 10:00 | 38 | 5 | 0 | 33 |
| 11:00 | 36 | 5 | 0 | 31 |
| 12:00 | 35 | 5 | 0 | 30 |
| 13:00 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 14:00 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 16:00 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 17:00 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 18:00 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
The weather improved greatly compared to yesterday, today the sea was calm. Only three dive pangas were seen, which stayed in the center of the ZTA from 6:30 until 14:00. There was more fishing activity outside of the ZTA; between 6:00 and 8:00 more than 16 pangas crossed to the northeast section, many of them with flags to mark the nets on board. We could see also a lot of panga activity to the south, in front of San Felipe. At 13:00 we spotted a panga that stopped right next to one of the south marker buoys of the ZTA, and they seemed to start setting a net because a marker float with a flag was in the water. But a Navy vessel Defender was in the area and approached to the area fast, which made the panga collect what they had set and move quickly heading to San Felipe.
Figure 1. Panga activity in the ZTA today 18th of February.
Figure 2. Radar screenshot at 13:00, with the panga that started setting a net inside the ZTA (target 53).
