Social Impacts Research for Marine Protected Areas and Priority Marine Features Management in Scottish Waters

Appendix 4.0 Survey

Attendees Anonymous Questionnaire

1. Location of the event: [Please choose one option]

a) Peterhead

b) Lerwick

c) Troon

d) Oban

e) Ullapool

f) Western Isles

2. Personal information

Gender: Male | Female | Other | prefer not to say

Age: 16- 24 | 25 – 34 | 35 – 44 | 45 – 54 | 55 – 65 | 65+

Occupation:

3. Are you here as a representative of an organisation? Yes / No

If yes, which organisation [optional]?

4. Where do you live? [Please choose what best describe]

a) In the town where the event is held

b) In the same local authority area

c) Less than 30 minutes’ travel

d) Between 30 minutes to 2 hours’ travel

e) Further than 2 hours’ travel / visiting

f) Other __________

5. How long have you lived in the area / where you live now? [Please choose one option]

a) Less than 1 year

b) Between 1-5 years

c) Between 6-10 years

d) Longer, but grew up elsewhere

e) I grew up here

6. If you moved here, what brought you to the area? [multiple choice]

Family

Work

Studies

Scenery

Leisure activities

Other:_______________

Not applicable

7. If you are visiting, what brought you to the area? [multiple choice]

On holiday

Family

Work

Studies

Other:_______________

Not applicable

If on holiday, is there anything specific which made you choose this area?

8. Do you know people who work in fishing-related activities or industries (such as fishing, processing marine products, boat repair, etc.) [Please choose one option]

yes

no

9. Do you know people who work in marine tourism activities or businesses: [Please choose one option]

yes

no

10. If you are visiting, please DO NOT answer this question:

Have you noticed any changes in recent years, in any of the following? [Please mark as appropriate]

Have you noticed change? If yes, how do you perceive this change? [Please choose one option]

• Local infrastructure (like transportation, communication, health. education) - Yes / No

a) Positive

b) Both positive and negative

c) Neither positive or negative

d) Negative

Local economy (like industry, jobs) - Yes / No

a) Positive

b) Both positive and negative

c) Neither positive or negative

d) Negative

Local community and culture (like local identity, cultural heritage, being involved/supporting others) Yes / No

a) Positive

b) Both positive and negative

c) Neither positive or negative

d) Negative

What kind of changes:

Survey response numbers

Total number of survey respondents: 318

Total number of completed surveys: 205

Total number of incomplete surveys: 113

Unless stated otherwise, all the information below is based only on the data of those who completed the survey. This number excludes the final question which was not compulsory. These figures take into account respondents in hard copy and online, thus including those who attended the events and agreed to feel the questionnaire and those who were invited to do so because they could not attend. The link the survey was shared on social media during the event in Lerwick and after, which may have led to the high response rate for this location.

Respondence by location (for completed surveys):

Lerwick: 173

Oban: 8

Peterhead: 5

Tron: 9

Ullapool: 6

Westen Isles: 2

Demographics

Age split of respondents (for completed surveys)

The main age group replying to the survey, online and in written version, were respondents between the ages of 35 and 54, complying with 46.4% of respondents. As can be seen in Figure 4,there were 22 respondents between ages 16-24 (10.7%), 36 between ages 25-34 (17.6%), 50 between ages 35-44 (24.4%), 45 between ages 45-54 (22%), 28 between ages 55-65 (13.7%) and 24 over the age of 65 (11.7%).

The gender split of respondents (for completed surveys)

Corresponding to the attendance in the events in all the locations, respondents to the survey were predominantly male. There were 142 male respondents (69.3%), 51 female respondents (24.9%) and 12 respondents who did not disclose (5.9%).

Predominant occupations

Only four respondents (2%) out of those who completed the survey stated that they do not know people who work in fishing-related activities or industries (such as fishing, processing marine products etc.). That is, 197 respondents or 98% do personally know people who are part of the fishing industry. Those who do not know people from the fishing industry came from Lerwick (2 respondents), Troon (1) and Ullapool (1). As only nine respondents completed the survey in Troon and only six from Ullapool, those represent 11% and 16% of the respondents in these locations, respectively.

Only 22 respondents (10.7%), answered “no” to the question: “do you know people wo work in marine tourism activities or businesses?”. 18 of those were from Lerwick, representing 10.2% of those who completed the survey from this location. Three were from Troon, representing a third of those who completed the survey from this location. One form the Western Isles, representing 50% of those who completed the survey form this location.

Group representatives

In response to the question, “Are you here as a representative of an organization?” thirty-seven respondents answered “Yes”. Out of them, 33 respondents provided the name of the organization or group they represent.

33 respondents were representatives of groups. These are shown in Table 5.

Table 5: Group representatives

Lerwick

Fishing Forward U.K.

Ocean farm services (2)

Sondra fishing company ltd

Sail Line Fish Ltd

Shetland Fisherman’s association small boat committee

DEFIANT LK 371

Fishing industry or fishermen (5)

North Yell Development Council

Valentia LK21

Shetland Mussels Ltd

Shetland Fishermen’s Association (3)

Lerwick Fisherman’s Association

Scottish Seafarms

Seafood Shetland

Peterhead

National Trust for Scotland

Oban

Seawilding and Cromach

Marine Directorate Compliance

MICT

Ullapool

Sea Change Wester Ross Community Thinktank

Liquid Footprints & Scottish Canoe Association

Troon

Marine Concern - Seal Scotland

CFA

Clyde porpoise

SB Fish Troon

Western Isles

Comhairle nan Eilean Siar

Familiarity with MPAs and PMFs

The graphs below show the number of respondents and their familiarity with MPAs.