Capstone Project Highlight! Erika Gutierrez, CSP class of 2025 Masters student, engaged with small-scale fishing cooperatives in Colima Mexico to strengthen their organization and collective action. She gained insight into their governance structures including how decisions are made, how actions are coordinated, and how issues within the cooperatives are dealt with. Understanding how these fishing cooperatives organize is essential to foster effective cooperative organization and enhance the sustainability of their fishery. Her work will contribute to the Diagnóstico Nacional de Organizaciones Pesqueras (DNOP), which aims to inform a national program to strengthen fishing organizations in Mexico. View video highlights from the project: