Sea fisheries - future catching policy: consultation analysis

2. Respondent profile

2.1. The consultation received 245 responses in total. This included one duplicate response. After this response was removed, the analysis was based on 244 responses.

2.2. A vast majority of consultation responses were submitted through the online portal, with the remainder submitted to the Scottish Government directly, for example, by email. Where this was the case, the Scottish Government passed all correspondence directly to the Diffley Partnership for review and logging.

2.3. Diffley Partnership exported responses from Citizen Space into Microsoft Excel and manually added non-Citizen Space responses for data cleaning, review, and analysis.

2.4. Responses were submitted by 200 individuals and 44 organisations (see Table 1.1).

2.5. Organisations are classified as follows:

• Fishing organisations (including representative bodies and fishing industry) (n=19)
• Conservation (n=15)
• Public Sector (n=4)
• Scientific body/academia (n=1)
• Third Sector (n=1)
• Other (n=4)