Ship: Seahorse
Name: Laura Sánchez
Date: 02/03/23
Ship’s Activity: Monitoring
Table 1. Panga counting done during the 2nd of March from 04:00 to 06:00 and from 12:00 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 | |
| 12:00 | 20 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| 13:00 | 29 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 0 |
| 14:00 | 28 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 2 |
| 15:00 | 20 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 1 |
| 16:00 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| 17:00 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| Hour | Pangas ZTA Buffer Zone | |||
|
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | |
| 06:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 17:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
|
Hour |
Pangas Outside ZTA | |||
|
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | |
| 06:00 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 12:00 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 17:00 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Note: From 7:00 to 11: we were drifting in front of San Felipe due to a Navy meeting.
Total number of different pangas fishing today in the ZTA: 0.
Total number of different pangas fishing today in the ZTA Buffer Zone: 0.
After the bad weather from last night, we returned to the ZTA around 4:00. Early in the morning we headed to San Felipe for attendance to a Navy meeting. We were drifting in front of town from before 7:00 to 11:00 approximately; we could not see all the extension of the ZTA. But we could see plenty of pangas fishing there in front of San Felipe, about 20 of them inside the Vaquita Refuge.
When we headed to the ZTA after the meeting, we could see more than 20 pangas in the center area, which we identified as diver pangas. At 14:00 we contacted the Navy for a fishing buoy we spotted unattended; a defender vessel and a Navy tender arrived and then we could confirm it was just a rope attached to it but no net. After that, the Navy tender stayed in the ZTA until after 18:00.
Figure 1. Panga activity in the ZTA today 2nd of March.
Figure 2. Radar screenshot at 15:00, with about 20 diver pangas in the ZTA.
