Ship: Seahorse
Name: Laura Sánchez
Date: 07/05/23
Ship’s Activity: Monitoring
Table 1. Small boat counting was done during the night of the 6th of May from 20:00 to 23:00 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 |
| 21:00 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Table 2. Small boat counting was done during the 7th of May 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 | |
| 11:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 19:00 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Hour | Small boats in the Buffer Zone | |||
|
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | |
| 10:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13:00 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 14:00 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 15:00 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 17:00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 18:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 19:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Hour | Small boats in the VR | |||
|
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | |
| 10:00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 11:00 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 12:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 14:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 15:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 16:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 17:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 18:00 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 19:00 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Total number of different small fishing boats fishing today in the ZTA: 1.
Total number of different small fishing boats fishing today in the ZTA Buffer Zone: 1.
Today there was low activity in the ZTA, with over 10 pangas crossing towards the NE during the morning. At 9:00, together with the Navy, we tried to retrieve a piece of ghost net that was missing from the previous operation. We spent the day in the area, as we tried different approaches to retrieve it.
At 18:43 we spotted a panga that stopped in the ZTA just on the area we were half an hour ago and we launched the drone. They were pulling a shrimp net and the Navy was contacted, but the panga left 25 minutes after first being spotted.
Figure 1. Small fishing boat activity in the ZTA today 7th of May.
Figure 2. Radar screenshot at 19:00. Target number 1 was the panga pulling a shrimp net.
