Benefits of legal establishment of the CCP include:
This approach helps meet multiple objectives including reducing financial dependence on fishing activities while creating alternatives and to alleviate current poverty; promoting the leadership role of women on the daily management and decisions about natural resources; increased technical capacity and skills-building for CCP members, especially for CCP youth and women; growing support and increasing the technical capacity for local communities to manage and protect their own marine and coastal resources while guaranteeing access to these resources for future generations; the recovery of key species and marine ecosystems; and increase variety of options for the community to reduce dependence on and pressure on currently highly fluctuating and dwindling marine resources.