With a deadline fast approaching on a federal plan to reduce the number of fish allocated to Alaska halibut charter businesses and hand them over to commercial fishermen, a handful of state ...

Long-line caught halibut await unloading in Petersburg. (Angela Denning/KFSK) Regulations for Alaska halibut charters are looser this summer for the second year in a row. The groups regulating halibut ...

Alaska history is full of fishing stories, from fireside salmon consumption 11,000 years ago to the largest commercial landings in 2016. How, where and what we catch is an ever-developing story ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - The government can limit the number of permits for halibut charter boats in the Gulf of Alaska to promote conservation of the prized fish, a federal judge ruled. A trade group, the ...

Already facing low catches due to the same issues affecting Pacific cod, Alaska's commercial halibut fishing sector faces new competition for quota from recreational users, Alaska Dispatch News ...

Seward, Alaska - Things got kind of crazy there for awhile, a predictable turn of events when there’s a big halibut at the end of the line. Jerry Stanislowski of Grand Forks, N.D., had just landed a ...

Economic and regulatory factors have over the years forced some Alaska halibut charter fishermen and women to adapt, moving to new waters for their harvests, a new University of Alaska Fairbanks study ...

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council is looking at more changes for halibut charter fishing in Southeast and Southcentral Alaska. The council met in early December and is preparing ...

Halibut fishing is struggling. The flat fish, once a mainstay for Alaska fishers — and for American families — can now cost more than $30 a pound at the supermarket.

The ratchet keeps tightening on Southcentral halibut charter operations, among other groups, and relief measures are still stuck in development. The level of legally harvestable halibut in the North ...