“…Some recently published scientific articles have concluded that global fisheries are collapsing, or even predicted that by the year 2048, commercially valuable species will be completely eliminated [2][3][4][5]. Although the prediction made by Myers and Worm [4] is exaggerated [6][7][8], the general depressed state of fish stocks has nevertheless raised worldwide concerns, and consequently resulted in calls for strengthening management measures on fish stocks by implementation of international legal arrangements (ILAs) by individual nations or Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (RFMOs) [9]. This is not to say that examples of well maintained sustainable fisheries do not exist [10][11][12], rather that the depressed state of many fisheries requires changes to current management approaches.…”