Ship: Seahorse
Name: Laura Sánchez & Núria Patiño
Date: 03/06/23
Ship’s Activity: Monitoring
Table 1. Small boat counting was done during the 3rd of June from 06:00 to 23:00 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 | |
21:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Hour | Small boats in the Buffer Zone | |||
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | |
21:00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
23:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Hour | Small boats in the VR | |||
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | |
07:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
13:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
20:00 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
22:00 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
23:00 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
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: 0.
Quiet day in the ZTA, no small boats were seen in the area during the morning, just one in the northwest in the Vaquita Refuge. During the evening there was some small boat activity in the sound and northwest of the Vaquita Refuge, and some pangas crossing in the ZTA and the buffer zone. At night there were several small boats in the Vaquita Refuge south from the ZTA.

Figure 1. Small fishing boat activity in the ZTA today 3rd of June.

Figure 2. Radar screenshot at 20:00.