In 2013, the government of Nicaragua requested technical assistance from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to formulate a strategy that improves the occupational safety of lobster fishermen, while also increasing the sustainability of fishing for this crustacean on the country’s North Caribbean Coast. Since then, the FAO Country Office in Nicaragua – with resources from the FAO Technical Cooperation Program (TCP) and the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation (AMEXCID), channelled through the Mesoamerica Hunger-Free Program – has provided technical support to the Nicaraguan Institute of Fisheries and Aquaculture (INPESCA), through various South-South cooperation initiatives and two projects successively implemented in the period 2015-2019. The results achieved were significant including the introduction of two new capture techniques, which have helped to reduce occupational diving accidents by 40 percent and to improve the sustainability of the lobster fishery. In addition, there is evidence of a significant increase in the value of lobster exports (40 percent), as a consequence of the higher price obtained for the sale of whole lobsters (live or precooked) obtained with the new fishing methods. Lastly, the gradual replacement of wooden traps with folding pots has had a positive impact on the reduction of logging in the territories inhabited by the Miskita ethnic group.