for smallscale fishers and fish workers the benefits of being part of an organization include i experiencing a sense of belonging and identity ii generating market power for better opportunities as well as for devising the ways and means to obtain the best return for the products of their labour iii being involved in developing policies to improve the fisheries sector and iv conservation of the fishery resources and protection of their ecosystems founded in by a group of smallscale fishers its goals are to improve both working conditions for artisanal fisheries and the positioning of their products in the market this process revealed that the link between the tarcoles fishing community and its marine resources was not limited to a dependence on them as a source of income and livelihood in recent years and with the support of coopesolidar rl coopetarcoles rl has promoted a series of participatory strategies for sustainable management of fishery resources including the generation of new knowledge