Ship: Seahorse
Name: Laura Sánchez
Date: 25/02/23
Ship’s Activity: Monitoring
Table 1. Panga counting done during the night of the 23rd of February from 20:00 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 25th of February from 00:00 to 14:00 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 | |
06:00 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
07:00 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
08:00 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
09:00 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
10:00 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
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 | |
06:00 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
07:00 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
08:00 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
09:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Total number of different pangas fishing today in the ZTA: 0.
Total number of different pangas fishing today in the ZTA Buffer Zone: 0.
On the 24th of February we went to Puerto Peñasco so external media could disembark; we were back in the Vaquita Refuge at midnight. The day started with calm weather, with a few diver pangas in the center of the ZTA. By 11:00 the swell and the wind increased, and we reached 50 knots of wind at some point in the afternoon. We had to go south with the swell, and we were able to go back to the ZTA at midnight.

Figure 1. Panga activity in the ZTA today 25th of February.

Figure 2. Radar screenshot at 10:00, with the group of 5 dive pangas in the center area of the ZTA before the weather worsened.