Artisanal fishing on the island of San Andrés: between cooperation and cooperativism

Abstract

The present work studies the cooperation that sustains artisanal fisheries of San Andrés in cooperatives and associations. This cooperation was understood as a value that denotes collective action around common objectives. The proposed methodology was based, firstly, on a bibliographic review that gave an account of some historical factors that have shaped the conditions of artisanal fishing, such as the trajectories of specialization and institutionalization of fishing and the current sociocultural continuities in social relations between fishermen. And, secondly, in a case study in the cooperative of artisanal fishermen "Coopesbi", identifying norms, roles and values ​​that emerge from the practice of fishing. It was found that cooperation is crossed by logics that combine patterns of behavior coming from both cooperativism and the historical and normative frameworks of artisanal fishing. In this sense, an analysis is presented on the way in which cooperativism has been appropriated and hybridated by the artisanal fishermen of San Andrés.