Ship: Seahorse
Name: RPH
Date: 19/04/2023
Ship’s Activity: Monitoring
Table 1. Small fishing boat counting was done during the night of the 18th of April from 20:00 to 23:59 with radar observations. The hours not represented in this table correspond to hours when no pangas were seen in the ZTA or outside.
| Hour | Boats in the ZTA | Boats in the Buffer Zone | Boats in the VR |
| 22:00 | 5 | 9 | 34 |
| 21:00 | 4 | 0 | 23 |
| 22:00 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 23:00 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Table 2. Small fishing boat counting was done on the 19th of April 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 | Small fishing boats ZTA | ||||
|
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | Crossing | |
| 08:00 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 16:00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 17:00 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 18:00 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 19:00 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Hour | Small fishing boats ZTA Buffer Zone | |||
|
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | |
| 08:00 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 09:00 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 10:00 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| 11:00 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 12:00 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 13:00 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 14:00 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 15:00 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| 16:00 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 17:00 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 18:00 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| 19:00 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| Hour | Small fishing boat Outside ZTA | |||
|
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | |
| 00:00 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 01:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 08:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 09:00 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 10:00 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 19 |
| 11:00 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 13 |
| 12:00 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| 13:00 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| 14:00 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 21 |
| 15:00 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 21 |
| 16:00 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| 17:00 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 17 |
| 18:00 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 27 |
| 19:00 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
Total number of different Small fishing boats fishing today in the ZTA: 7.
Total number of different Small fishing boats fishing today in the ZTA Buffer Zone: 27.
At 07:32, a flag was found inside the ZTA. The Navy was contacted. The warship made contact with the net and retrieved the buoy with the flag. There was no net attached to it. At 09:19, a ghost net was spotted on the surface outside of the ZTA in the buffer zone. The Navy was contacted at 09:23. The interceptor arrived, removed all 3 ghost nets from the water and left by 09:56.
At 16:00, 2 small boats went inside the ZTA and started to pull a net, The Mv Seahorse reported to the navy and started the protocol to send the interceptor with the federal inspectors.
Minutes after, two new boats started to go inside the ZTA in direction of some buoys with flags.
4 Boats were pulling nets inside the ZTA at the time. The navy warship arrived in the area and started to patrol around waiting for the interceptors.
One of the boats divided one of the nets and add an extra buoy, then another boat from outside of the ZTA came in and started pulling the new net.
The interceptors arrived at the area and started pulling the unattended nets from the area, most of the fishing boats pull the rest of the nets and left.
At 19:20 the Mv Seahorse detected a group of 2 boats fishing in the north area, the interceptors arrived in the area en sent them out of the ZTA.
Figure 1. Small fishing boat activity in the ZTA today 19th of April.
Figure 2. Radar screenshot at 16:08.
Figure 3. Radar screenshot at 18:13, target 55 Vallarta warship, 44, 60, 53 fishing boats, 61 intercepetors .
