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Ship: Seahorse

Name: Laura Sánchez

Date: 20/02/23

Ship’s Activity: Monitoring

Table 1. Panga counting done during the night of the 19th of February from 20:00 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
20:00 0 0 2
22:00 0 0 2

Table 2. Panga counting done during the 20th 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
14:00 2 0 0 0 2
18:00 2 0 0 0 2
19:00 1 0 0 0 1
Pangas ZTA Buffer Zone
 

Total

Net Fishing Divers Potential Net Fishing
0 0 0 0

 

Hour Pangas Outside ZTA
 

Total

Net Fishing Divers Potential Net Fishing
10:00 5 0 0 5
11:00 2 0 0 2
12:00 2 0 0 2
13:00 5 0 0 5
14:00 5 0 0 5
15:00 11 0 0 11
16:00 20 0 0 20
17:00 23 0 0 23
18:00 10 0 0 10
19:00 5 0 0 5

 Note: From 7:00 to 12:00 we were drifting in the east area of the ZTA for the crew change.

Total number of different pangas fishing today in the ZTA: 0.

Total number of different pangas fishing today in the ZTA Buffer Zone: 0.

Quiet day in the ZTA, the only pangas seen where transiting. During the morning we were mostly on the east side, while conducting a crew change and handover. We were able to see more pangas outside of the ZTA to the northeast area in the afternoon. The Navy warship stayed in the ZTA during the night and were patrolling around during the day, mostly in the north area. An Interceptor vessel was also seen patrolling between 17:00 and 18:00.

Figure 1. Panga activity in the ZTA today 20th of February.

Figure 2. Radar screenshot at 18:00, with two pangas crossing back to San Felipe. Target number 25 is the Navy warship.

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