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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.

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