vsolis@coopesolidar.org<\/a>), Member, ICSF<\/p>\n
\nJeannette is part of a fishing family in T\u00e1rcoles, a fishing community on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Her father has been a fisherman all his life, and her mother collects bivalves and other fisheries products for a living. She has six brothers.<\/p>\n
Today, Jeannette is the manager of the ConsorcioPorlaMar R.L, a community-based tourism initiative that works with Costa Ricans to help them learn and value small-scale fishing activity. This local enterprise promotes responsible artisanal fisheries as a dignified way of life that contributes to biological and cultural conservation of coastal and marine resources, and benefits local families in T\u00e1rcoles.<\/p>\n
It is part of Jeanette’s daily responsibilities to organize artisanal fishing trips for visitors, including students, during which she explains to them the importance of small-scale fishing for the wellbeing of not only local communities but the country as a whole. She talks about how small-scale fishing provides food for families, work for men, youth and women, and fish for the entire nation. Jeanette’s words ring true because she a fisher herself. But she also makes it a point to emphasize that small-scale fishing communities have certain basic needs that cannot be ignored those of education, health and human rights.<\/p>\n
Says Jeanette: \u0093I love fishing at all times, no matter if the sea is calm or strong. When I go out fishing, what counts is how much fish I catch, and how much I enjoy doing this work.<\/p>\n
How has she coped with the demands of a fishing life? \u0093For a fishing woman, fishing is a hard life, says Jeanette, \u0093but I have been able to give my daughter a good education with the resources that I make through fishing. When I am in the boat and night falls, I hear the sound of the sea as it hits the boat, and the breeze of the night relaxes me. I love sleeping out at sea.<\/p>\n
Jeanette is passionate about nurturing the artisanal fisheries: \u0093Artisanal fishing is important for our food security; it also gives us a way forward in life economically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":223,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"region":[],"source":[],"country":[],"state":[],"city":[],"yemaya_category":[5268],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yemaya\/45623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yemaya"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/yemaya"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yemaya\/45623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65651,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yemaya\/45623\/revisions\/65651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=45623"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=45623"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=45623"},{"taxonomy":"state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/state?post=45623"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=45623"},{"taxonomy":"yemaya_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yemaya_category?post=45623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}