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Ship: Seahorse

Name: Heidy Martinez

Date: 01/04/23

Ship’s Activity: Monitoring

 

Table 1. Small Fishing boat counting was done during the night of the 31th of March from 20:00 to 23:00 with radar observations, visual observation, and photography. The hours not represented in this table correspond to hours when no boats were seen in the ZTA or outside.

Hour Total Pangas ZTA Pangas ZTA Buffer Zone Pangas Outside ZTA
20:00 6 0 0 6
21:00 6 0 0 6
22:00 10 0 0 10
23:00 6 0 0 6

 

Table 2. Small Fishing Boat counting was done during the 1th of April from 00:00 to 20:00 with radar observations. The hours not represented in this table correspond to hours when no boats were seen in the ZTA or outside.

Hour Pangas Inside ZTA
 

Total

Net Fishing Divers Potential Net Fishing Crossing
06:00 1 0 0 0 1
07:00 7 0 7 0 0
08:00 11 0 11 0 0
09:00 16 0 16 0 0
10:00 16 0 16 0 0
11:00 14 0 14 0 0
12:00 16 0 16 0 0
13:00 13 0 13 0 0
14:00 12 0 12 0 0
15:00 6 0 6 0 0
16:00 8 0 4 0 4
17:00 2 0 2 0 0
18:00 3 0 2 0 1
Hour Pangas ZTA Buffer Zone
 

Total

Net Fishing Divers Potential Net Fishing
06:00 3 0 0 3
08:00 1 0 0 1
10:00 3 0 0 3
11:00 3 0 0 3
12:00 1 0 0 1
13:00 2 0 0 2
14:00 1 0 0 1
15:00 4 0 0 4
16:00 7 0 0 7
17:00 5 0 0 5
18:00 5 0 0 5
19:00 5 0 0 5

 

 

Hour Pangas Outside ZTA
 

Total

Net Fishing Divers Potential Net Fishing
06:00 1 0 0 1
07:00 2 0 0 2
08:00 5 0 0 5
09:00 4 0 0 4
10:00 5 0 0 5
11:00 5 0 0 5
12:00 7 0 0 7
14:00 8 0 0 8
15:00 12 0 0 12
16:00 37 0 0 37
17:00 29 0 0 29
18:00 29 0 0 29
19:00 33 0 0 33

 

Total number of different small boat net fishing today in the ZTA: 0.

Total number of different small boats fishing today in the ZTA Buffer Zone: 7.

Small boats started crossing through the ZTA around 5:30 in the morning. Around 7:15, more small boats began arriving at the center of the ZTA. We transited to the area and concluded that they were divers. Around 10:00 we had the maximum number of small boats in the ZTA. Around 14:00, there was an increase in small boat activity in the vaquita refuge. There was a maximum of 37 small boats by 16:00. The small boats remained consistent through 20:00. The Navy warship patrolled the ZTA throughout the whole day.

Figure 1. Small Boat activity in the ZTA today 01th of April.

Figure 2. Radar screenshot at 16:01, we can see a big number of small boats west of the vaquita refuge. Target 45 is the Navy warship.

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