Ship: Seahorse
Name: Laura Sánchez
Date: 21/02/23
Ship’s Activity: Monitoring
Table 1. Panga counting done during the night of the 20th 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 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
21:00 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Note: both pangas were crossing.
Table 2. Panga counting done during the 21st 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 | |
08:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
15:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
19:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Hour |
Pangas Outside ZTA | |||
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | |
08:00 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 6 |
09:00 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 7 |
10:00 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
11:00 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
12:00 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
13:00 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
14:00 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
15:00 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
18:00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Hour | Pangas ZTA Buffer Zone | |||
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | |
09:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
19:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Note: both pangas in the buffer zone were crossing.
Total number of different pangas fishing today in the ZTA: 0.
Total number of different pangas fishing today in the ZTA Buffer Zone: 0.
This morning we saw about 10 pangas crossing to the northeast area, some of them with fishing gear on board. None of them stayed in the ZTA. The Navy warship Vallarta has been all day in the ZTA, moving from the north area in the early morning to the south area in the late morning, and stayed there through the afternoon until just before 17:00, when they left to San Felipe. One Interceptor was also around the ZTA during the morning; it was seen moving between the warship and San Felipe, and also in the south area of the ZTA.

Figure 1. Panga activity in the ZTA today 21st of February.

Figure 2. Radar screenshot at 8:00, with one panga heading northeast (target 56). Target number 47 is the Navy warship. The big red dense areas are clouds.