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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.

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