Ship: Seahorse
Name: Laura Sánchez
Date: 26/02/23
Ship’s Activity: Monitoring
Table 1. Panga counting done during the 26th 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 | |
06:00 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
07:00 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
08:00 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
09:00 | 22 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 0 |
10:00 | 21 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 0 |
11:00 | 24 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 0 |
12:00 | 22 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 0 |
13:00 | 22 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 0 |
14:00 | 20 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 |
15:00 | 15 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 3 |
16:00 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Hour | Pangas ZTA Buffer Zone | |||
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | |
09:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
15:00 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
16:00 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Hour |
Pangas Outside ZTA | |||
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | |
11:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
14:00 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
15:00 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Note: all the pangas outside and in the ZTA buffer zone were crossing back to San Felipe.
Total number of different pangas fishing today in the ZTA: 0.
Total number of different pangas fishing today in the ZTA Buffer Zone: 0.
Today the only presence inside the ZTA were divers; the maximum number of diver pangas observed was 24. There was also two trawlers spotted in the morning and afternoon crossing the ZTA heading north.

Figure 1. Panga activity in the ZTA today 26th of February.

Figure 2. Radar screenshot at 11:00, with more than 20 dive pangas in different clusters at the center of the ZTA.