Ship: Seahorse
Name: Laura S.
Date: 20/09/2023
Ship’s Activity: Monitoring
Table 1. Small boat counting was done during the 20th of September from 00:00 to 23:00 (except 13:00&14:00&15:00) 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 | Small boats Inside ZTA | ||||
|
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | Crossing | |
| 06:00 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 07:00 | 11 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 3 |
| 08:00 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| 09:00 | 12 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| 10:00 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 11:00 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 12:00 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Hour | Small boats in the VR | |||
|
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | |
| 06:00 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 07:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 09:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10:00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 11:00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 12:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Hour | Small boats in the Buffer Zone | ||||
|
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | Crossing | |
| 06:00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 08:00 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 09:00 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10:00 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11:00 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12:00 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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.
Shortly after 6:00 the first small diver boat stopped in the center of the ZTA. By 9:00 the group was of 12 diver boats, which stayed mostly until after 12:00.
During the morning, about eleven small boats crossed the ZTA to the north – northeast.
Around 8:00 a small boat with corvina nets on board approached the Seahorse asking if they were inside the ZTA. They then stopped in the Buffer Zone and set two nets. The Navy was contacted as the boat did not have name or registration number. A Navy vessel defender arrived at the ZTA around 9:30 and to the area where the small boat was at 10:15. They stayed with them until they retrieved the two nets.
After that, we headed to Consag Rock to look for entangled sea lions. When we arrived back at the ZTA there were no small boats left inside.
Figure 1. Small fishing boat activity in the ZTA today, 20th of September.
Figure 2. Radar screenshot at 9:00. Target 83 is the small boat fishing in the Buffer Zone.
