Like last year, the commercial fishing season for halibut this year along much of the coast will be March 6 through Dec. 7. The halibut commission will be marking its hundredth year in 2024.

By Associated Press Sep 12, 2003 0 Photo by Associated Press Crew members of the Miss Mary hoist the 533-pound, 98-inch halibut they caught while fishing off St. Paul Island, Alaska.

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 ...

Melissa Hurd poses with 144.2-pound halibut. Alaska’s News Source reported that the potentially dangerous halibut was “shot” by the captain before it was brought onto the boat.

Contact Fish and Game in person, on the ADF&G Sport Fish Information Center phone line (907-267-2218) or online (adfg.license@alaska.gov or the Fishing section of adfg.alaska.gov) for questions ...

Unlike in California, where you can retain 10 rockfish a day, in this zone of Alaska you can keep only three. With five of us on the boat, it only took about 30 minutes to catch 15 fish, with most ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A halibut sport fishing guide who was caught by undercover wildlife officers has been sentenced to 10 days in jail and fined $5,000.

Long Island LI Life Bucket List: Alaska fishing trips for halibut and salmon Chris Paparo shows off the 190-lb. halibut he caught at Alaska’s Tanaku Lodge in 2019. Credit: @fishguyphotos ...

In January, the International Pacific Halibut Commission boosted total halibut removals for 2021 by 6.5% to 39 million pounds for taken by all users and as bycatch in fisheries of the West Coast ...

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.

Boiter says, ''This is definitely not the average fish.'' The record catch came in 1996 when Jack Tragis brought in a 459-pound halibut in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. --- ...

But in the past, several “barn door” halibut exceeding 300 pounds have been caught. The Valdez Halibut Derby record, set in 2017, stands at 374 pounds.