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Hatchery and farming of spiny lobsterAn overview
S Lakshmi Pillai
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Abstract
Spiny lobsters are high value crustacean fishery
resource having great demand in the international
market, especially as whole live. Caught in
trawl, bottom set gill nets and traps, some of the
important Palinurid species of spiny lobsters are-
Panulirus homarus, Panulirus ornatus, Panulirus
versicolor, Panulirus polyphagus, Panulirus argus,
Panulirus cygnus, Panulirus japonicus, Panulirus
echinatus. In India they form bycatch in trawls
along Maharashtra, Gujarat (P. polyphagus) in
Northwest and Tamil Nadu (P. homarus, P. ornatus)
and Kerala (P. homarus) in the southeast and
southwest coast respectively.