The Galician small-scale fisheries sector has been experiencing important changes. The presence of a wide range of ecological, economic, social and institutional drivers have forced the statu quo towards new transitions with the potential to generate desirable transformative changes. Sustainability transformations mean that changes fundamentally alter the entire system’s ecological and/or social properties and functions. However, there is a limited understanding of how a transformative change may look in small-scale fisheries, when and by whom it can be triggered, supported and implemented. To cover this research gap, the objectives of this paper are twofold: to document the current state of the art of Galician small-scale fisheries, and to evaluate the innovations and changes that occurred between 1990 and 2020, to explore whether such changes have scaled-up as seeds of desirable transformative changes and, if not, what obstacles and/or barriers have been identified in the scientific literature. We selected two cases, the Galician shellfisheries and the Marine Protected Area of Fishing Interest Os Miñarzos, to understand when and how profound changes in small-scale fisheries took place. We hypothesize that obstacles for building resilience to consolidate transformative changes once triggered are the still moderate effectiveness of the fisheries management systems, the low progress of incorporation of scientific and traditional knowledge into decision-making processes and policy arenas, the lack of studies about socio-economic contribution to coastal communities and commercialization models, and the presence of persistent ecological and economic drivers hindering desirable transformative changes.

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瞬息万变的时代：加利西亚小规模渔业的可持续性转型

加利西亚小规模渔业部门正在经历重大变化。广泛的生态、经济、社会和制度驱动因素的存在迫使现状向新的转变，并有可能产生理想的变革性变化。可持续性转型意味着变化从根本上改变了整个系统的生态和/或社会属性和功能。然而，对于小规模渔业中的变革可能如何，何时以及由谁触发、支持和实施，人们的理解有限。为了弥补这一研究空白，本文的目标有两个：记录加利西亚小型渔业的当前状态，并评估 1990 年至 2020 年间发生的创新和变化，探索此类变化是否已扩大为理想的变革性变化的种子，如果没有，科学文献中已确定哪些障碍和/或障碍。我们选择了两个案例，即加利西亚贝类渔业和 Os Miñarzos 渔业保护区海洋保护区，以了解小型渔业何时以及如何发生深刻变化。我们假设，一旦触发，建立复原力以巩固变革性变革的障碍是渔业管理系统的有效性仍然适中，将科学和传统知识纳入决策过程和政策领域的进展缓慢，缺乏关于社会对沿海社区和商业化模式的经济贡献，