This initiative preserves the traditional navigation and fishing practices of Cabo Blanco and El Ñuro, rooted in pre-Hispanic heritage. These communities rely on wind-powered sailboats and selective hook-and-line methods, ensuring sustainable, low-impact fishing while avoiding destructive practices like bottom trawling. However, these traditions face threats from modernization and lack of legal protections.

H2Océanos supports these fishers by organizing annual regattas, promoting tourism, and facilitating direct market access. In 2018, advocacy efforts secured National Cultural Heritage recognition, but further legal and economic support is needed. The project also works to integrate these practices into Peru’s Mar Tropical de Grau Marine Protected Area (MPA), ensuring their long-term sustainability.

By preserving traditional fishing, this initiative ensures food security, boosts incomes, and strengthens local economies. Fishers benefit from direct sales, reducing reliance on intermediaries and securing fair prices. Low-income communities gain access to fresh fish through government food programs.

The project also enhances marine conservation by protecting traditional fishing grounds and combating illegal fishing. Legal recognition of these practices strengthens cultural heritage while supporting sustainable fisheries management.

The project promotes alternatives for the provision of esential drinking water for these communities at fair prices, vital for family health and hygiene and their fishing activities.

Built in collaboration with Cabo Blanco and El Ñuro, this initiative emerged from community-led efforts to safeguard their heritage. H2Océanos has supported their advocacy, regattas, and engagement with policymakers. By adding economic value to these traditions, the project incentivizes younger generations to continue these practices.

H2Océanos plays a key role in safeguarding cultural heritage, advocating for traditional fishing rights, and strengthening the implementation of Law 31749 that recognizes the ancestral fishing practices. It also works with policymakers to develop regulations for the Mar Tropical de Grau MPA, ensuring traditional fishers' involvement in conservation and monitoring efforts.