Ship: Seahorse
Name: Ricardo Ponce
Date: 07/03/2023
Ship’s Activity: Monitoring
Table 1. Panga counting done during the night of the 6th 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 |
Table 2. Panga counting done during the 7th of March from 00:00 to 20:00 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 | |
| 07:00 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 08:00 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 09:00 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10:00 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11:00 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13:00 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 14:00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 17:00 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Hour | Pangas ZTA Buffer Zone | |||
|
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | |
| 07:00 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 08:00 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 09:00 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 10:00 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 11:00 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 12:00 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| 13:00 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 17:00 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
Total number of different pangas fishing today in the ZTA: 12.
Total number of different pangas fishing today in the ZTA Buffer Zone: 15.
| Hour | Pangas Outside ZTA | |||
|
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | |
| 7:00 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| 8:00 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| 9:00 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| 10:00 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 17 |
| 11:00 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 12:00 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| 13:00 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 17:00 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 18:00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 19:00 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 20:00 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
This morning around 7:00 a group of pangas got close to the borderline of the ZTA in the north area. As we started to get close to the point, a large number of pangas arrived to the area. 9 were inside of the ZTA and around 20 in the buffer zone, all of them in a relatively small area. Around 7:20 we sent the drone and the report to the navy, we got closer and most of the pangas started to go away, but about 4 stayed inside the area pulling corvina nets. We also sent a SITREP and waited for the navy response. They arrived around 9:00 and started to send them out of the ZTA
The nets of the fishing boats were really packed with fish, they might had left the nets the night before, because about 4 of them were really full of fishes, when most of the other had just some pairs. Around 10:00 the navy finished the talk with the pangas in the ZTA and half hour later the Buque Escobedo arrived in the area. They went out for some time until 12:30 when 2 new pangas went inside the ZTA and started fishing, 10 minutes later the navy answered sending a boat and 10 minutes later the pangas were sent away of the ZTA.
After that, some pangas went again to the buffer zone around 5 pm, but the ZTA stayed empty and just a couple of pangas crossed the area non stopping.
Figure 1. Panga activity in the ZTA today 7th of March.
Figure 2. Radar screenshot at 07:30, with the pangas retrieving nets in the ZTA border (red line) and cluster of diver pangas in the northwest area and north buffer zone.
