The second term of calculation of the vulnerability index isthe rate of dependence Dep (in terms of the household’s mone-tary income) on the main activity. The data show that WA-MPAhouseholds, who post less diversity of activity in general and lesstypes of fishing activity in particular, have a higher Dep value (aver-age = 0.87) than REM-MPA households (average = 0.79). The effectof this is to drive the vulnerability index in the opposite directionto that described above.