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).