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Scientist’s Report

 

Desk 1. Panga counting achieved throughout the evening of the 14th of February from 19:00 to 00:00 with radar observations. There have been no pangas seen both inside or outdoors of the ZTA.

Complete Pangas ZTA Pangas ZTA Buffer Zone Pangas Outdoors ZTA
0 0 0

 Desk 2. Panga counting achieved throughout the 15th of February from 00:00 to 02:00 and from 11:00 to 19:00 with radar observations. The hours not represented on this desk correspond to hours when no pangas had been seen within the ZTA or outdoors.

Hour Pangas Inside ZTA
 

Complete

Web Fishing Divers Potential Web Fishing Crossing
13:00 1 0 0 0 1
14:00 1 0 0 0 1
16:00 1 1 0 0 0
17:00 1 1 0 0 0
18:00 1 1 0 0 0
19:00 1 1 0 0 0
Pangas ZTA Buffer Zone
 

Complete

Web Fishing Divers Potential Web Fishing
0 0 0 0

 

Pangas Outdoors ZTA
 

Complete

Web Fishing Divers Potential Web Fishing
0 0 0 0

Observe: From 02:00 to 11:00 we went south after which north with the swell.

Complete variety of completely different pangas fishing in the present day within the ZTA: 1.

Complete variety of completely different pangas fishing in the present day within the ZTA Buffer Zone: 0.

Through the evening we skilled tough climate, with winds of greater than 30kt. Within the morning the state of the ocean improved, nevertheless it was nonetheless tough for pangas. We simply noticed a trawler within the ZTA transiting to the north. Round 16:00 we noticed a panga crossing the ZTA, however they stopped inside on the north border and began pulling a web. We contacted the Navy; within the meantime the panga completed retrieving the web, moved to a different web that had flags within the water however then they moved once more to the place of the primary web. The circumstances weren’t good, with winds as much as 20kt and the solar setting. A Navy vessel defender arrived at 18:30 when it was already darkish they usually had difficulties discovering the panga, as they’d no lights on. The panga left shortly earlier than 19:00 and the defender as effectively, however one other Navy vessel Interceptor arrived to patrol the realm.

Determine 1. Panga exercise within the ZTA in the present day 15th of February.

Determine 2. Radar screenshot at 17:00, with the panga named Gael (pink circle) retrieving their web.

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