Ship: Seahorse
Name: Laura S.
Date: 23/09/2023
Ship’s Activity: Monitoring
| Hour | Small boats Inside ZTA | ||||
|
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | Crossing | |
| 06:00 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 07:00 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| Hour | Small boats in the ZTA Expansion | ||||
|
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | Crossing | |
| 06:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 07:00 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Table 1. Small boat counting was done during the 23rd of September from 00:00 to 7:00 (except 3:00) with radar observations. The hours not represented in this table correspond to hours when no small boats were seen in the ZTA or outside.
| Small boats in the Buffer Zone | ||||
|
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 | |
| 00:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 04:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 06:00 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 07:00 | 1 | 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: 0.
As of today, we added the future expansion of the ZTA to our map (in orange in Figure 2) and modified the Buffer Zone to the north and east sides.
In the early morning some small boats were seen south of the ZTA in the Vaquita Refuge. Small diver boats began to gather shortly before 7:00; eight were spotted before we headed to Puerto Peñasco for a medical emergency.
Figure 1. Small fishing boat activity in the ZTA today, 23rd of September.
Figure 2. Radar screenshot at 7:00.
