Integrating traditional institutions into marine resource comanagement has become common across the Pacific. However, these arrangements can link village-based and centralized governance systems in many ways, resulting in new hybridized institutional organizations, operational scales, and governance process. Examining the context-specific social, cultural, and historical processes that shape these programs can reveal how systems for comanagement develop, and how institutional differences influence adaptive capacity. Using analytical tools drawn from critical institutionalism and broad institutional perspectives, we assess how different institutional histories and processes of hybridization informed the adaptive capacity of two comanagement programs in Samoa: the Community-Based Fisheries Management Programme (CBFMP) and the Marine Protected Area (MPA) program. While the programs were embedded in similar cultural and ecological contexts, the MPA program became inactive following the 2009 Pacific tsunami, while the CBFMP endured. In spite of early efforts to involve communities in the MPA program’s development, the institutional history and organization of the program’s managing agency informed an interpretation of comanagement principles that did not adequately incorporate traditional Samoan institutions for coastal management, reducing its adaptive capacity. In contrast, the CBFMP gained resilience through its fundamental integration with village-based social and political institutions, social norms, and values. This analysis of institutional histories, structures, and program outcomes demonstrates that colonial legacies pose obstacles for successful hybridized governance in the Pacific, while also confirming the valuable contributions integrated traditional institutions can make to improving adaptive capacity.

将传统机构纳入海洋资源共同管理在整个太平洋地区已经很普遍。但是，这些安排可以通过多种方式将基于村庄的集中式治理系统联系起来，从而形成新的混合型机构组织，业务规模和治理流程。研究构成这些程序的特定于上下文的社会，文化和历史过程可以揭示协同管理系统如何发展，以及制度差异如何影响适应能力。使用从批评的制度主义和广泛的制度视角得出的分析工具，我们评估了不同的制度历史和杂交过程如何影响了萨摩亚两个共同管理计划的适应能力：社区渔业管理计划（CBFMP）和海洋保护区（MPA）计划。尽管这些计划被嵌入到类似的文化和生态环境中，但MPA计划在2009年太平洋海啸之后变得不活跃，而CBFMP则得以忍受。尽管尽早努力使社区参与MPA计划的开发，但该计划的管理机构的机构历史和组织仍对共同管理原则做出了解释，该原则未能将传统的萨摩亚机构充分纳入沿海管理，从而降低了其适应能力。相反，CBFMP通过与基于村庄的社会和政治机构，社会规范和价值观的基本整合而获得了弹性。这种对制度历史，结构的分析，