Federal fisheries managers have instituted new regulations for charter halibut fishing in Southeast and Southcentral Alaska this year. Anglers charter fishing in these regions must have a charter ...

Halibut Olympia, a Tuesday-night kind of recipe, was part of the planning (if not the eating) at the Friday meeting. By Julia O’Malley Reporting from Anchorage In the end, the high-stakes summit ...

Fishing derbies are like the lottery in that you can’t win unless you enter. Lorna Illingworth, for example, caught a 158-pound halibut last weekend while fishing during the “Halibut Hullabaloo” out ...

Two boys from Craig, Alaska, gained notoriety this week after catching a 100-pound halibut on their own aboard a 14-foot skiff. The accompanying footage shows the beaching of the halibut and one boy ...

Alaska halibut is facing strong headwinds that have dampened the value of the catch shares needed to go fishing. Increasing imports of Atlantic halibut from eastern Canada, reports of several million ...

A woman from Fairbanks, Alaska, has taken the lead in the annual Valdez Halibut Derby with a catch last Friday that tipped the scale at 144.2 pounds. Melissa Hurd told Alaska’s News Source that the ...

A federal grand jury in Alaska has indicted five commercial fishermen accused of orchestrating a long-running illegal halibut harvest scheme in Southeast Alaska. The case centers around the fishing ...

SEWARD, Alaska — David Rokser was pedaling his fishing kayak last week, trolling as he went along, hoping to catch a salmon or maybe a rockfish. The Duluth native was on Resurrection Bay in the North ...

The tiny fishing fleet from St. Paul is losing the fight for halibut, up against factory ships that throw away more of the valuable fish than the Indigenous fishers are allowed to catch. Halibut are ...