<p> QUESTIONNAIRE</p><p>Interviewed Community: Date:</p><p>INTERVIEWEE DATA</p><p>1. Name/Nickname: Gender:</p><p>2. Age: Birthplace:</p><p>3. Schooling level: ( ) Illiterate ( ) Elementary school. Grade ____</p><p>( ) Junior/High School. Grade ____ ( ) College (Professional school)</p><p>FISHING DATA</p><p>4. Fishing experience (years): Fishing experience in this region (years):</p><p>5. Fishing place (environment): ( ) river ( ) Lagoon ( ) coast</p><p>( ) ocean. Autonomy (days at sea):</p><p>6. Boat type/length: ( ) canoe _____ ( ) motorized boat _____ </p><p>( ) sail raft____ ( ) raft ____ ( ) other: ______, ____</p><p>7. Engine power: ______HP</p><p>8. Fishing gear:</p><p>9. Target fish species:</p><p>ESTUARINE DOLPHIN (Sotalia guianensis) DATA</p><p>10. Which of these pictures is/are the most abundant animal(s) in the region?</p><p>(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)</p><p>Image (letter): _____</p><p>11. What is the name of this animal (How do you call it)?</p><p>( ) Boto Cinza ( ) Boto ( ) Golfinho ( ) other: ______12. How do you classify it (life form)?</p><p>( ) fish ( ) mammal ( ) other: ______</p><p>13. Where are they sighted? </p><p>( ) coast ( ) ocean ( ) river ( ) other: ______</p><p>14. What size does this animal reach (animal adult size)? ______</p><p>15. What color is this animal? Does the color change along its development?</p><p>16. How do you recognize this dolphin? What are the features that differentiate it from other kinds of dolphins?</p><p>17. Have the number of dolphins (abundance) increased, decreased or remained the same in this region in the past decade? If it changed, why?</p><p>18. Have you had any interaction with this dolphin in your fishing activity (positive or negative)?</p><p>( ) No ( ) Yes: How do you describe such interactions?</p><p>19. Have you ever seen a dolphin incidentally caught in fishing nets? </p><p>( ) No ( ) Yes: How far from the beach?</p><p>Which kind of dolphin (species)?</p><p>Was it on your own fishing nets?</p><p>20. What is done to dolphins incidentally caught in nets?</p><p>( ) Released in the sea ( ) eaten ( ) used as fishing bait</p><p>( ) other: ______</p>