摘要：In the midst of a global fisheries crisis, there has been great interest in the fostering of adaptation and resiliencein fisheries, as a means to reduce vulnerability and improve the capacity of fishing society to adapt to change. However, enhancedresilience does not automatically result in improved well-being of people, and adaptation strategies are riddled with difficultchoices, or trade-offs, that people must negotiate. This paper uses the context of fisheries to explore some apparent tensionsbetween adapting to change on the one hand, and the pursuit of well-being on the other, and illustrates that trade-offs can operateat different levels of scale. It argues that policies that seek to support fisheries resilience need to be built on a better understandingof the wide range of consequences that adaptation has on fisher well-being, the agency people exert in negotiating their adaptationstrategies, and how this feeds back into the resilience of fisheries as a social-ecological system. The paper draws from theorieson agency and adaptive preferences to illustrate how agency might be better incorporated into the resilience debate.
