Fishers’ participation in Small-Scale Fisheries. A structural analysis of the Cabo de Palos- Islas Hormigas MPA, Spain María Semitiel-García a *, Pedro Noguera-Méndez a a Departamento de Economía Aplicada, Universidad de Murcia, 30001 Murcia, Spain. pedrono@um.es, mariase@um.es *Corresponding author Funding: The research leading to these results has received funding from the FP7 – People - Marie Curie Actions – Initial Training Network for Monitoring Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas (ITN-MMMPA) project, Contract nº 290056. The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Ethics statement: Permission to conduct this study was granted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Environment in Spain and ethics approval was obtained for this study through submission of an ethics assessment to the University of Murcia Ethical Committee. Participants were informed of the aims of the project, how data would be used and how they could access the study results. Researchers obtained verbal consent from participants before conducting interviews. Personal identifying information was replaced with respondent ID numbers to ensure anonymity.