Ship: Seahorse
Name: Laura Sánchez & Núria Patiño
Date: 21/06/23
Ship’s Activity: Monitoring
Table 1. Small boat counting was done during the 21st of June from 03:00 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 in the Buffer Zone | |||
|
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | |
| 07:00 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 21:00 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 22:00 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Small boats in the ZTA | ||||
|
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | Crossing |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Hour | Small boats in the VR | |||
|
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | |
| 08:00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 20:00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 21:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 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: 1.
The Seahorse entered the ZTA right before 3:00 and proceeded to start monitoring the area.
During the morning we saw some small boats crossed the buffer zone heading north; a couple of them seemed to have flags on board (markers for nets). Some minutes before 21:00 we saw a small boat in the southwest area in the buffer zone retrieving a net and we contacted the Navy; they arrived to the location two hours later but the panga was on their way back to San Felipe.
No small boats were seen today inside the ZTA.
Figure 1. Radar screenshot at 7:00. The target moving south is a Navy vessel heading to San Felipe after dropping off an official on board the Seahorse.
Figure 2. Radar screenshot at 21:00. Target 1 is a small fishing boat in the buffer zone.
