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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.

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