Pacific Islands Fishery Monographs issue 9 on the Northwestern Hawaiian Island Lobster Fishery. Each issue of the monograph series provides an in-depth overview of a particular fishery management issue of importance in the U.S. Pacific Islands. The authors are either Council staff or contractors who provide their own findings and perspectives that may not necessarily reflect those of the Council or the National Marine Fisheries Service.
The current monograph was written by Michael Markrich and focuses on the history of a U.S. fishery that was once the most lucrative fishery in the State of Hawai‘i. This fishery expanded rapidly concurrently with an unexpected oceanographic regime shift in the North Pacific and environmental campaigns in support of large marine protected areas, such as the marine national monument in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, which includes lands ceded by the Kingdom of Hawai‘i.
