What does gathering from the seashore in Wales mean to you?
08 November 2018
Do you gather anything living from the seashore in Wales?
If you do, have a go at my online survey on what collecting from the shoreline really means to you..
From laver to lobsters, cockles to crabs. For reasons ranging from well-being to wallets. If you think you ‘only’ collect for food, bait, research or money. I reckon my survey will make you think twice about why you really go out on the beach in the pouring rain!
Answers are anonymous, feel free to circulate far and wide.
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Ethical approval
Bangor University Ethical Review approval reference CNS2018EMW01_v1_11.06.2018
About the researcher
I am Liz, a PhD (Doctoral) researcher at Bangor University. I am interested in the non-monetary values of gathering from the seashore. Gathering from the seashore is an activity that has been happening for sustenance, bait and increasingly fun around the world, important to many people. Yet these activities are little understood, particularly in Wales and the UK. The personal, social and heritage values are an important facet of ‘nature’s contribution to people’ (or ‘ecosystem services’).
I am particularly interested in talking (in person) to cocklers, winklers, laver pickers, families collecting to connect to their ‘heritage routes’ and specialist collectors in Wales. But the surveys also apply to researchers, natural historians, ecologists, foragers, bait collectors and anyone collecting anything living from our shorelines.
If you attribute high personal, cultural or heritage values to gathering from the seashore, please contact me to arrange a more detailed face to face or telephone interview soon.
If you have any contacts within your networks I would very much appreciate it if you could circulate my online survey as an introduction to the project.
