The need for strengthening fishers' adaptive capacity has been proposed in the literature as an important component of effective fisheries governance arrangements in the presence of rising numbers of external drivers of change. Within the context of small-scale fisheries, government subsidies have been the main tool used for increasing adaptive capacity. We examine the relationship among adaptive capacity, subsidy programs, and fishers' participation in fisheries management, as a potentially important mediating factor affecting outcomes using a data set from two periods of a fishing community in Baja California Sur, Mexico. Our results show a correlation between those fishers with access to decision-making venues and their reception of subsidies, yet the effect of participation and subsidies on fishers' adaptive capacity is limited. This appears to be due to the authorities' lack of commitment to strengthening fishers' adaptive capacity through subsidies programs, and fishers' lack of trust in the governance processes.

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补贴和参与式治理对渔民适应能力的贡献

文献中提出需要加强渔民的适应能力，将其作为有效渔业治理安排的重要组成部分，因为变化的外部驱动因素越来越多。在小规模渔业的背景下，政府补贴一直是用于提高适应能力的主要工具。我们使用墨西哥南下加利福尼亚州一个渔业社区的两个时期的数据集，研究了适应能力、补贴计划和渔民参与渔业管理之间的关系，作为影响结果的潜在重要中介因素。我们的研究结果表明，能够进入决策场所的渔民与其接受补贴之间存在相关性，但参与和补贴对渔民适应能力的影响有限。