The survey reveals that members of the public do have some basic knowledge about Chinese white dolphin, but they still do not know them well enough and even have some misconceptions about them. For instance, 93% of respondents do not know the scientific name of Chinese white dolphin, while 64% believe that Chinese white dolphin is an endangered species, which is not the real case.

Besides, over half of the interviewed dolphin watchers have never heard of the code-of-conduct in dolphin watching, while tour guides and boat captains in general are more aware of the code. This indicates that more promotion on the code-of-conduct would be necessary to reduce the disturbances caused by the dolphin watching boats to the wild dolphins.