Ship: Seahorse
Name: Laura Sánchez & Heidy Martinez
Date: 16/05/23
Ship’s Activity: Monitoring
Table 1. Small boat counting was done during the 16th of May from 00:00 to 03:00 and from 07:00 to 23:00 (except 11:00&13:00) 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 | |
| 08:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 16:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 17:00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 18:00 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 19:00 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 20:00 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Hour | Small boats in the Buffer Zone | |||
|
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | |
| 14:00 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 15:00 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 16:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 17:00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 18:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 19:00 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 20:00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Hour | Small boats in the VR | |||
|
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | |
| 01:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 02:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12:00 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 14:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 15:00 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 16:00 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 17:00 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 18:00 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 10 |
| 19:00 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 19 |
| 20:00 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 21:00 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| 22:00 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 23:00 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
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.
Vaquita survey resumed today at 5:00. Because of the survey operations, we could not confirm the activity of the pangas in the ZTA unless we crossed paths. Overall, there was little fishing activity during the morning. The gaps on the hourly data are because on some occasions it was not possible to turn the radar back on. In the afternoon we saw a couple of small boats fishing in the south area outside of the ZTA. Around 17:30 the survey finished for the day.
At 18:00 we spotted a small boat with a net in the water just at the border of the ZTA. We contacted the Navy and shortly after the fishermen started to retrieve the net. Thirty minutes later the Navy arrived and began pulling the net from the other end.
Figure 1. Small fishing boat activity in the ZTA today 16th of May.
Figure 2. Radar screenshot at 19:00. Target number 1 is the panga fishing.
