Oahu's Commercial Fishery

• According to the State of Hawaii, the commercial marine fishery in Oahu landed 26 million pounds in 2007. Oahu's fishery contributed approximately 83 percent of Hawaii's 31.2 million pounds landed.
  
  

Bottomfish Vessels

• The fishery includes small to medium vessels from 15- to 65-foot lengths with one to three fishers. Gear can include bottom hook-and-line, trolling gear, crab nets, crab and fish traps, according to the Hawaii Bottomfish website. A mainline can have two to eight branch lines with circle hooks. Chopped bait or squid in a chum bag hanging from the highest hook can lure the fish. Electrically powered fishing reels can retrieve the lines.
  
  

Closure in 2010

• According to the Hawaii Bottomfish fishery website, the National Marine Fisheries Service closed the Main Hawaiian Islands bottomfish fishery temporarily from April 20, 2010 to August 31, 2010. The fishery reached the total allowable catch for Deep 7 bottomfish in the 2009 to 2010 fishing year.