Loss of the Gocha mangrove forests has caused coastal erosion, reducing fish populations and requiring the Gocha Fishing Cooperative (GFC) to partially fund dredging and new shore facilities  However, as part of its subsidiary businesses, the GFC has now invested in a program to replant significant parts of the coast with mangrove trees
Given income from a controlled harvest of wood with continuing replanting, the mangrove regeneration effort makes it more likely that the cooperative will increase its net income
A controlled harvesting of mangrove wood by the GFC would have little effect on coastal erosion.