Ship: Seahorse
Name: Laura Sánchez
Date: 28/02/23
Ship’s Activity: Monitoring
Table 1. Panga counting done during the night of the 27th 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 |
Note: no data recoding from 22:00.
Table 2. Panga counting done during the 28th 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 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 07:00 | 18 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 2 |
| 08:00 | 44 | 0 | 40 | 2 | 2 |
| 09:00 | 42 | 0 | 40 | 2 | 0 |
| 10:00 | 40 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 0 |
| 11:00 | 42 | 0 | 42 | 0 | 0 |
| 12:00 | 35 | 0 | 35 | 0 | 0 |
| 13:00 | 33 | 1 | 31 | 0 | 1 |
| 14:00 | 27 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 1 |
| 15:00 | 23 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 2 |
| 16:00 | 15 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 3 |
| 17:00 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 |
| Hour | Pangas ZTA Buffer Zone | |||
|
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | |
| 08:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 09:00 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 9 |
| 10:00 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 9 |
|
Hour |
Pangas Outside ZTA | |||
|
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | |
| 08:00 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 09:00 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| 10:00 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| 11:00 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 14:00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 15:00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 17:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Note: The 2 pangas outside at 14:00 were going back to San Felipe.
Total number of different pangas fishing today in the ZTA: 1.
Total number of different pangas fishing today in the ZTA Buffer Zone: 2.
Today we had calm sea and many diver pangas were in the ZTA. They started arriving before 6:00 and the maximum number recorded was 42. Around 8:00 we spotted a panga sitting in the west area of the ZTA with what seemed like a corvina net on board; they approached to us and stopped quite close, as if they wanted to have a close look.
When we headed to the north area, we could see more than 25 pangas outside the ZTA, some of them in the buffer zone; of those, we had visual confirmation of two pangas with nets.
A Navy vessel defender was seen in the north area of the ZTA patrolling at 11:00, approaching some of the diver pangas.
At 12:37 we spotted a panga inside the ZTA pulling a net; we contacted the Navy but they finished retrieving the net shortly after, around 12:50, and they left towards San Felipe. We were informed that the Navy intercepted the panga and that they were aggressive. The defender was seen again in the afternoon for a couple of hours.
Figure 1. Panga activity in the ZTA today 28th of February.
Figure 2. Radar screenshot at 13:00, with the panga that retrieved a net in the ZTA heading to San Felipe (target 18).
Figure 3. Radar screenshot at 11:30, with more than 40 dive pangas in the ZTA.
