One fishing cooperative is trying to start a business to rent jet skis and motorcycles.

The village is home to a primary school, cultural center and small clinic as well as one of Mexico's oldest fishing cooperatives.

Six months after the storm, some of the widows have formed what is probably the first women's fishing cooperative in Mexico.

The fishing cooperative was founded in 1943, and the deepwater salt dock at the south end of the island was built in 1966.

Mussels are farmed in the nearby lagoon and fresh fish are on sale from the fishing cooperative.

Neither agricultural nor fishing cooperatives, however, proved economically profitable.

Mr. Guzmán used to pilot one of them for a local fishing cooperative.

The main industry is fishing (snow crab) and there is a fishing cooperative.

But of the 160 members of the local fishing cooperative, only about 50 to 60 are still working.

Each community has at least one fishing cooperative.