Consequently, for close to 100 years fisheries management has focused on regulating fishing pressure through, for example, the number of boats, the size of fishing nets, and the setting of a total allowable catch (Pauly et al. 2002, Bavington
2009). The new paradigm, known as an ecosystem approach to fisheries, recognizes that fisheries are social-ecological systems shaped over time by human activities that are both the cause and result of ecological change (Wilson 2006).