On behalf of the Freshwater Fisheries Division of the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, I would like to thank Responsive Management for the outstanding job that they did on the recently completed survey of licensed anglers in South Carolina. Under your innovative guidance, we were able to ascertain public opinion on many fishery management issues. Your competence in assisting our staff to develop the survey in the most cost-effective manner was extremely important in these times of restricted funding. I was especially pleased with your staff’s ability to work with colloquial names of places and species during the survey. In past surveys with other firms, many errors in data analysis occurred due to lack of training of the interviewers. Our requests for additional cross-referencing of data were handled promptly.

The product you provided fulfilled our needs and will play a major role in taking our department into the twenty-first century. It provides the catalyst for the department to recognize and adapt to change, to meet the needs of our constituents.

I want to sincerely thank you and your staff for producing a most informative document. The professional quality of the work, coupled with the personal approach of your organization, made the project most enjoyable to facilitate. I can think of no one that I would rather have do future surveys than Responsive Management.