With the regions defined, we began contacting organizations representing women fishers and shellfish gatherers to understand local issues and request the referral of female shellfish gatherers who were interested in doing research on the artisanal fishing practices of their communities and region, their knowledge and difficulties. After the referrals, we made a field visit to deliver materials and provide initial training. Each field collaborator received a tablet for audiovisual recordings and to participate in weekly online meetings where they presented the data collected, in collaboration with field supervisor Dr. Iacy Pissolato Silvera, who assisted them in the fieldwork, pointing out avenues for scientific research, ethnographic methods, and reflective exercises on the data collected. In addition, the collaborators wrote weekly field reports in the form of a field diary so that they could record the data and their general impressions. All of their work was later reviewed by the community researchers themselves, generating descriptive pages about their respective regions. The proposal to help the shellfish gatherers present their communities, knowledge, and ways of life seemed to us to be a valuable way to  practice a counter-colonial, empowering, and liberating anthropology. The community researchers showed how affective connections  with practices and knowledge, and feelings of belonging, pride, and love for their ways of life are effective methodological tools for capturing and representing their wisdom.