Ship: Seahorse
Name: HM
Date: 23/04/23
Ship’s Activity: Monitoring
Table 1. Small boat counting was done during the night of the 22 nd of April from 20:00 to 23:59 with radar observations. The hours not represented in this table correspond to hours when no small boats were seen in the ZTA or outside.
Hour | Boats in the ZTA | Boats in the Buffer Zone | Boats in the VR |
20:00 | 0 | 4 | 10 |
21:00 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Table 2. Small boat counting was done during the 23 rd of April 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 | Small boats Inside ZTA | ||||
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | Crossing | |
09:00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
10:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
16:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
18:00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
19:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Hour | Small boats in the Buffer Zone | |||
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | |
09:00 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
10:00 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
11:00 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
12:00 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
13:00 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
14:00 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
15:00 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
16:00 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
17:00 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
18:00 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
19:00 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Hour | Small boats in the VR | |||
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | |
09:00 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 33 |
10:00 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
11:00 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
12:00 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 22 |
13:00 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
14:00 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
15:00 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
16:00 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
17:00 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 22 |
18:00 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 25 |
19:00 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
Total number of different small fishing boats fishing today in the ZTA: 0.
Total number of different small fishing boats fishing today in the ZTA Buffer Zone: 16.
Of the night of 21:00, the only small boat activity was 3 small boats crossing the ZTA towards San Felipe.
At 09:32, a net was found in the surface of the water. The navy was contacted to retrieve it. The M/V Seahorse assisted the navy by locating the net using sonar technology. The net was retrieved by the interceptor by 13:25.

Figure 1. Small fishing boat activity in the ZTA today 23rd of April.

Figure 2. Radar screenshot at 09:14. High small boat activity in the buffer zone and vaquita refuge but with minimal to none inside of the ZTA.