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Ship: Seahorse

Name: Laura Sánchez

Date: 03/03/23

Ship’s Activity: Monitoring

Table 1. Panga counting done during the night of the 2nd of March 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

Table 2. Panga counting done during the 3rd of March 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 2 0 1 0 1
07:00 10 0 10 0 0
08:00 29 0 26 1 2
09:00 27 1 26 0 0
10:00 30 0 30 0 0
11:00 30 0 30 0 0
12:00 20 0 19 0 1
13:00 19 0 19 0 0
14:00 10 0 10 0 0
15:00 4 0 4 0 0
Hour Pangas ZTA Buffer Zone
 

Total

Net Fishing Divers Potential Net Fishing
09:00 3 0 0 3
10:00 2 0 0 2
12:00 1 0 0 1
13:00 1 0 0 1
14:00 1 0 0 1
16:00 2 0 0 2

Note: the 2 pangas in the ZTA buffer zone at 16:00 were heading to San Felipe.

 

Hour

Pangas Outside ZTA
 

Total

Net Fishing Divers Potential Net Fishing
06:00 4 0 0 4
07:00 7 0 0 7
10:00 20 0 0 20
11:00 45 0 0 45
12:00 45 0 0 45
13:00 40 0 0 40
14:00 20 0 0 20
15:00 5 0 0 5
16:00 1 0 0 1

Total number of different pangas fishing today in the ZTA: 1.

Total number of different pangas fishing today in the ZTA Buffer Zone: 0.

Today most of the diver pangas started to arrive to the ZTA after 7:00, and the maximum number registered during the day was 30.

At 9:00 we spotted a panga retrieving a net in the north area of the ZTA. We contacted the Navy but the panga finished pulling the net 8 minutes later and they left towards the north. A defender vessel was seen patrolling the ZTA a few hours later.

During the morning there were more than 45 pangas south of the ZTA in front of San Felipe, mostly probably net fishing.

Figure 1. Panga activity in the ZTA today 3rd of March.

Figure 2. Radar screenshot at 09:00, with the panga retrieving a net inside the ZTA (target 27).

Figure 3. Radar screenshot at 11:00, with about 30 diver pangas in the ZTA and more than 45 outside.

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