Interviewed Community: Date

QUESTIONNAIRE

Interviewed Community: Date:

INTERVIEWEE DATA

1. Name/Nickname: Gender:

2. Age: Birthplace:

3. Schooling level: ( ) Illiterate ( ) Elementary school. Grade ____

( ) Junior/High School. Grade ____ ( ) College (Professional school)

FISHING DATA

4. Fishing experience (years): Fishing experience in this region (years):

5. Fishing place (environment): ( ) river ( ) Lagoon ( ) coast

( ) ocean. Autonomy (days at sea):

6. Boat type/length: ( ) canoe _____ ( ) motorized boat _____

( ) sail raft____ ( ) raft ____ ( ) other: ______, ____

7. Engine power: ______HP

8. Fishing gear:

9. Target fish species:

ESTUARINE DOLPHIN (Sotalia guianensis) DATA

10. Which of these pictures is/are the most abundant animal(s) in the region?

(After confirming the occurrence of dolphins in the region, the fishers were asked to identify the estuarine dolphin among the images of 14 species of cetaceans)

Image (letter): _____

11. What is the name of this animal (How do you call it)?

( ) Boto Cinza ( ) Boto ( ) Golfinho ( ) other: ______12. How do you classify it (life form)?

( ) fish ( ) mammal ( ) other: ______

13. Where are they sighted?

( ) coast ( ) ocean ( ) river ( ) other: ______

14. What size does this animal reach (animal adult size)? ______

15. What color is this animal? Does the color change along its development?

16. How do you recognize this dolphin? What are the features that differentiate it from other kinds of dolphins?

17. Have the number of dolphins (abundance) increased, decreased or remained the same in this region in the past decade? If it changed, why?

18. Have you had any interaction with this dolphin in your fishing activity (positive or negative)?

( ) No ( ) Yes: How do you describe such interactions?

19. Have you ever seen a dolphin incidentally caught in fishing nets?

( ) No ( ) Yes: How far from the beach?

Which kind of dolphin (species)?

Was it on your own fishing nets?

20. What is done to dolphins incidentally caught in nets?

( ) Released in the sea ( ) eaten ( ) used as fishing bait

( ) other: ______