Abstract
This paper applies a resilience thinking framework to examine the seabob shrimp fishery on the North Coast of São Paulo (Brazil) as a socio-ecological system (SES). It conceptualises the seabob fishery SES, describes the system dynamics and highlights some disturbances to its resilience. It is critical that future policy interventions acknowledge the complex and dynamic nature of fishery SESs if alternative pathways to sustainability are to be built.