The Fisheries Cooperative Movement Around the World

Abstract

Cooperatives protect underprivileged people, including fishermen, and enhance their rights based on the core principles of self-help, responsibility, democracy and equality. The world has turned to cooperatives as an alternative global economic system after recognizing the limits of the market economy, which had previously been regarded as the ideal economic system, after it experienced a financial crisis originating from the United States and the European Union.