Marine resources – remote electronic monitoring: consultation analysis

2. About the respondents and responses

Number of responses received

2.1. A total of 48 responses were received. 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.

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

About the respondents

2.3. A total of 48 responses were received (all valid i.e., no duplicate or blank responses), a majority of which were submitted by organisations (69%) (see Table 1).

2.4. A variety of organisations responded to the consultation. The respondent categories agreed with Scottish Government are as follows:

• Fishing organisations (including representative bodies and fishing industry)
• Conservation
• Public Sector
• Third Sector
• Other

2.5. Table 2 below shows the number of respondents by category.