Ship: Seahorse
Name: Ricardo Ponce & Núria Patiño
Date: 08/07/23
Ship’s Activity: Monitoring
Table 1. Small boat counting was done during the 8th of July from 04:00 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 | |
| 06:00 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 07:00 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 08:00 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 09:00 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 10:00 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 11:00 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 12:00 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 13:00 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 14:00 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 15:00 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Hour | Small boats in the Buffer Zone | |||
|
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | |
| 20:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Hour | Small boats in the VR | |||
|
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | |
| 20:00 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
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.
From 6:00 to shortly after 12:00, a group of 6 small boats in collaboration with CONANP were looking for ghost nets along the northeast line of the buffer zone; during those hours they went all up and down following the buffer zone line.
During the morning there was also a group of up to 3 small diver boats in the center of the ZTA, the last one left just after 15:00. The Navy interceptor was seen patrolling the ZTA around 11:00.
At dawn some small boats were seen stationary in the southwest outside the ZTA, including one that stayed in the Buffer Zone for about an hour.
Figure 1. Small fishing boat activity in the ZTA today 8th of July.
Figure 2. Radar screenshot at 9:00.
