Understanding what diversity of small‐scale fisheries translates to in practice, and what this means for management regimes seeking sustainability, continues to be a challenging undertaking. This is particularly so in the tropical Pacific Islands region, where small‐scale coastal fisheries play a significant role in domestic food and livelihood systems. A renewed regional policy focus on supporting coastal fisheries, combined with momentum built from a decades‐long ‘Pacific renaissance’ in community‐based fisheries management approaches, has increased resourcing and support for coastal fishery data collection and knowledge production. In this context, there is growing demand to explicitly characterise diversity and complexity of community‐based coastal fisheries to inform how national co‐management programs can adequately support the many communities within national constituencies. This study presents findings from a community‐based coastal fisheries monitoring programme implemented in ten communities across Kiribati and Vanuatu between 2019 and 2021. Findings illustrate the intra‐ and inter‐country diversity of contextual drivers, fishing practices, and fisher participation. We discuss the implications of this enhanced understanding of community‐based fisheries for applied co‐management practice in these two countries. In doing so, we add to a growing knowledge base about fishing practices in Pacific Island coastal communities and elucidate avenues through which to incorporate this knowledge into adaptive co‐management practice.

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描述基里巴斯和瓦努阿图沿海社区渔业多样性的特征


了解小规模渔业的多样性在实践中意味着什么，以及这对寻求可持续性的管理制度意味着什么，仍然是一项具有挑战性的任务。在热带太平洋岛屿地区尤其如此，小规模沿海渔业在国内粮食和生计系统中发挥着重要作用。新的区域政策重点关注支持沿海渔业，再加上长达数十年的“太平洋复兴”以社区为基础的渔业管理方法所形成的势头，增加了对沿海渔业数据收集和知识生产的资源和支持。在这种背景下，越来越需要明确描述基于社区的沿海渔业的多样性和复杂性，以告知国家共同管理计划如何充分支持国家选区内的许多社区。本研究介绍了 2019 年至 2021 年间在基里巴斯和瓦努阿图十个社区实施的基于社区的沿海渔业监测计划的结果。研究结果说明了背景驱动因素、捕捞做法和渔民参与的国内和国际多样性。我们讨论了对社区渔业的加深理解对这两个国家应用共同管理实践的影响。在此过程中，我们增加了有关太平洋岛屿沿海社区捕捞实践的不断增长的知识库，并阐明了将这些知识纳入适应性共同管理实践的途径。