Scientist’s Report 03.06.23

Ship: Seahorse

Name: Ricardo Ponce

Date: 06/03/23

Ship’s Activity: Monitoring

Table 1. Panga counting done during the night of the 5^th of March from 20:00 to 00:00 with radar observations. There were no pangas seen either inside or outside of the ZTA.

Table 2. Panga counting done during the 6^th 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.

Total number of different pangas fishing today in the ZTA: 2.

Total number of different pangas fishing today in the ZTA Buffer Zone: 5.

Today we started observing fishing activity inside the ZTA and in the Buffer zone around 13:00 being that hour the one with more activity in the ZTA and the buffer zone. Around 13:17 we got close enough to the pangas to spot them with the binoculars and confirm they were fishing, immediately we contacted the navy, some minutes after they send a unit from the Buque Escobedo that was anchored outside the ZTA, around 13:40 the unit arrived to talk with the first panga (the other panga in the area was pulling a net out of the water), the panga left the area, after they went towards the 2^nd panga around 13:50 they started to talk with the second panga, the panga left right after, they already had the net back. 15 minutes after an interceptor arrived to the area and patrolled around.

Figure 1. Panga activity in the ZTA today 6^th of March.

Figure 2. Radar screenshot at 13:27, with the panga retrieving a net inside the ZTA.