Table 1.
Non-demographic questions (Q) included in the online survey about the perception of fish sentience, welfare and slaughter in Bogotá, Capital District, Colombia and Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil; available from August 2014 to April 2015.
Table 2.
Demographic data of 395 respondents in Bogotá and 387 in Curitiba, from a survey concerning the perception of fish sentience, welfare and slaughter; August 2014 to April 2015.
Fig 1.
Perception of fish sentience (Q1) by 782 citizens of Bogotá and Curitiba, 2014/2015.
Data for city, gender and age; 1 = certainly not and 5 = certainly yes; (BOG) represents data from Bogotá, (CWB) data from Curitiba and (T) the total data; the asterisk indicates gender difference (P<0.05, Mann-Whitney); letters indicate differences between age groups (P<0.05, Kruskal-Wallis and Dunn Test).
Fig 2.
Perception of animal sentience (Q2) by 782 citizens of Bogotá and Curitiba, 2014/2015.
Data for city and gender; 1 = no sentience and 5 = maximum sentience; the asterisk indicates both city and gender difference (P<0.05, Mann-Whitney); letters indicate differences between animals (P<0.05, Kruskal-Wallis and Dunn Test).
Fig 3.
Perception of animal sentience (Q2) data for age, by 782 citizens of Bogotá and Curitiba, 2014/2015.
1 = no sentience and 5 = maximum sentience; letters indicate differences between age groups (P<0.05, Kruskal-Wallis and Dunn Test).
Fig 4.
Perception of fish suffering out of water (Q3) by 782 citizens of Bogotá and Curitiba, 2014/2015.
Data for city, gender and age; 1 = certainly not and 5 = certainly yes; (BOG) represents data from Bogotá, (CWB) data from Curitiba and (T) the total data; the asterisk indicates city and gender difference (P<0.05, Mann-Whitney); letters indicate differences between age groups (P<0.05, Kruskal-Wallis and Dunn Test).
Fig 5.
Acceptability of catch-and-release angling (Q4) by 782 citizens of Bogotá and Curitiba, 2014/2015.
Data for city, gender and age; 1 = certainly not and 5 = certainly yes; (BOG) represents data from Bogotá, (CWB) data from Curitiba and (T) the total data; the asterisk indicates gender difference (P<0.05, Mann-Whitney).
Fig 6.
Perception of fish pain (Q6) by 782 citizens of Bogotá and Curitiba, 2014/2015.
Data for city, gender and age; 1 = none and 5 = maximum; (BOG) represents data from Bogotá, (CWB) data from Curitiba and (T) the total data; the asterisk indicates gender difference (P<0.05, Mann-Whitney); letters indicate age difference (P<0.05, Kruskal-Wallis and Dunn Test).
Fig 7.
Perceived level of suffering in different scenarios (Q7) by 782 citizens of Bogotá and Curitiba, 2014/2015.
Data for city, gender and age; 1 = none and 4 = a lot; (I) Fishing with hook and line, (II) Municipal live fish fair, (III) Fish-and pay ponds, (IV) Fish kept as laboratory animals, (V) Fish farming, (VI) Fish in pet stores, (VII) Production of ornamental fish, (VIII) Fish in aquarium exhibits, (IX) Fish kept as pets; the asterisk indicates city and gender difference (P<0.05, Mann-Whitney); letters indicate differences between scenarios and age groups (P<0.05, Kruskal-Wallis and Dunn Test).
Fig 8.
Percentage of responses regarding the slaughter methods (Q8) most observed by 782 citizens of Bogotá and Curitiba, 2014/2015.
Data for city, gender and age, the asterisk indicates difference between groups (P<0.05; Chi-square test).
Fig 9.
Perception of suffering in slaughter (Q9), meat quality (Q10) and regulation (Q12) by 782 citizens of Bogotá and Curitiba, 2014/2015.
Data for city, gender and age; 1 = certainly not and 5 = certainly yes; the asterisk indicates gender difference (P<0.05, Mann-Whitney); letters indicate differences between age groups (P<0.05, Kruskal-Wallis and Dunn Test).