Lobster Logbook
The NWHI lobster trap fishery, which commenced in the mid-1970s, is a multispecies fishery and primarily targets the Hawaiian spiny lobster (Panuliris marginatus) and the common slipper lobster (Scyllarides squammosus).  The ridgeback slipper lobster (S. haani) became a target species later in the fishery as the live …