Sea Angling Diary Tool

1. Eligibilty

* In which country do you currently live? We need this to verify whether or not you are eligible to take part in the project Please select from the list below.

At this time the Sea Angling Diary Project is only open to new diarists resident in England or Wales. For more information, contact seaanglingdiary@substance.net . Or please click this link www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/ScotNISADP/ if you want to know more about eligibility for the SADP or to register interest in other angling research. Ok

Other (please specify)

2. Sea Angling Participation This Year

* 1. Have you done any sea angling in the UK? Please say whether this has been in the last 12 months, longer ago than the last 12 months, or never?

Yes - in the last 12 months

Longer ago than the last 12 months

I have never been sea angling

* 2. In the last 12 months, on how many different days did you go sea angling in the UK? If your session went over more than one calendar day, count it as two days.

Once

Rarely - 2-5 days

Occasionally - 6-12 days

Regularly – 13-35 days

Frequently – More than 35 days

3. Sea Angling Participation

* 3. In total how many years have you been sea angling for (from when you first went to now)?

0 - 5

6 - 10

11 - 15

16 - 20

21 - 30

31 - 40

41 - 50

51 - 60

61 - 70

+70

* 4. Has your participation in sea angling been consistent since the first time?

Yes - almost every year

Yes, but with some small gaps/periods not fished

No, there have been some significant gaps

No, there have been some very long gaps

* 5. Which best describes your sea angling experience/skill level?

I am a beginner sea angler who has been a small number of times

I am an intermediate sea angler with a reasonable amount of experience

I am an experienced sea angler with some specialist skills

I am a very experienced sea angler in a variety of different environments

* 6. How important is sea angling for your lifestyle, in relation to your social life, work, other hobbies, etc? Please select from the choices below to indicate importance from 1 (not at all important) to 10 (very important).

1 (not at all important)

5 (neither important or unimportant)

10 (very important)

4. Sea Angling Diary Sign up

* 7. Do you expect to go sea angling before the end of 2023 in the UK? Please tick Yes, No or Don’t know.

Yes

Don't know

By selecting 'No', you are not eligible to register for the project.

* 8. Would you like to take part in the Sea Angling Diary Project? Please tick Yes or No.

This is a major UK-wide survey to help demonstrate the impact of sea angling and inform the sustainable management of stocks. You will be supplied with access to a free app, a unique online diary, catch recording kit and personal online dashboard. Please tick one option below.

Yes

I would like to be entered into the prize draw for Fishing Megastore vouchers, Amazon vouchers (T+Cs on the website).

To help the environment I would like to go PAPERLESS and do not need a printed waterproof notebook and printed Fish ID guide. Please send me a pdf copy.

* 9. How did you hear about the Sea Angling Diary Project? Please select one from the options below.

5. Your contact details

Please provide your contact details. So that we can send you the Sea Angling Diary Survey Pack and log in details and communicate with you, we need you to provide us with contact information. Your address will only be used to send the Diary packs and we will not pass these details on to anyone else. However, we cannot send you your packs and diary log in without your details. We are also asking for your email and phone number so that we can stay in touch during the year, help you to complete the survey and ask additional questions if. We will NOT use this information for ANY other purposes not related to the Diary project and we will NOT pass it on to ANYONE ELSE - unless you instruct us to do so at the end of the survey.

*Forename:

*Surname:

*Email:

*Phone:

*Address Line 1:

Address Line 2:

Address Line 3:

*Town/City:

*Full postcode:

6. About You

Please provide some basic information about you. This is so that we know the profile of the respondents to this survey and we will not use or publish or pass on any identifying information.

* 11. What is your year of birth?
The project is only open to people aged 16 or older

* 12. Are you:.

Male

Female

Other

Prefer not to say

We would like to know if you would be like to be contacted by Substance or other organisations. Contact details will ONLY be used for the purpose you indicate and will not be passed onto any other party. If you give consent to be contacted you can unsubscribe at any time.

* 13. Would you like to be contacted by Substance in relation to other research?

Yes

* 14. Would you like to receive newsletters from Fishing Megastore?.

Yes

* 15. Would you like to receive communications from any of the following organisations?
Please tick the organisations you would like to receive communications from. We will pass your email on to the organisation, but they will only be used for this purpose.

Angling Trust

Angling Cymru

None of the above

Consent

By ticking SUBMIT here you confirm you have read and understood the purpose of the survey; that you are taking part voluntarily and can withdraw; and that information provided will be used in research reports. You also confirm that you are happy to stay on the project until and including 2024, and for Substance to retain your data until December 2025 – but that you can withdraw at any time. You can only start using the diary, receive a diary pack once logged in. You will be included in the monthly prize draw when you enter data for that month unless you tell us otherwise. For terms and conditions of the monthly prize draw, please see the project website: www.seaangling.org

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