Before the cooperatives, most fishers sold to whoever lent them money for fuel, at the lender’s price. Selling together and owning the ice gave them time to wait for a fair price.
Fisher cooperatives of northern Iloilo
Three cooperatives that sell the catch together, run a shared ice plant and keep a fund for typhoon months.
- Programme
- Fair income
- Status
- Ongoing
- Where
- Concepcion and Ajuy, Iloilo
- Years
- 2023 to 2026
- People reached
- 2,150
- With
- Sulog Fishers Cooperative, Hilway Development Trust
