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Abstract
This work aims to revise and discuss organizational, social, economical, technical and environmental factors involved in the artisan
fishing activity which influence the formation and the development of the cooperatives of artisan fishermen; these ones, still form a
class of workers excluded of the current capitalist economical system and they have in the cooperativism an important tool for your
social inclusion, it warrants them the income for maintenance of families. Therefore, a bibliographic revision was carried out on the
theme, as well as on the themes related to the cooperativism and to the fishing activity itself through a research on the bibliographical
collections of the main entities, organs and services that deal with the matter, besides the rising of data through consultations and
informal routine interviews, made during technical visits to the some communities. The analysis of the information sought allowed
concluding that the artisan fishermen need solutions for technical and commercial problems that keep them in serious situation of
economical dependence, which tend to disappear through the formation of cooperatives. However, it is highly necessary authorities’
perception for understanding that cooperative efficiency is related not only to objectives of economical nature, when considered the
marginal situation of the fisherman, in several areas, related to the market where they act. According to the proportion of good results
they get, the cooperatives process social changes which transcend their your own associative body reaching a whole community, in
the search of the social correction through economical factors, set up from values such as the fair distribution of income which
deserves the adoption of urgent pro-active posture and actions.