Daily bag limits for halibut will not be going down in unguided recreational sectors, after a decision from the International ...

U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) welcomed a decision by the International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC) to defer ...

The International Pacific Halibut Commission will decide Thursday whether to cut private anglers’ halibut limits from two ...

The coast-wide commercial catch f or 2026 totals 19.32 million pounds, down from 19.7 million pounds in 2025. The Commission voted to hand over the controversial decision regarding a proposal for a ...

A Trump appointee threatened sanctions on Canadian halibut exports if the country’s negotiators didn’t accept a cut to the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Halibut on a boat deck in Alaska, during the summer fishing season; (photo/Shutterstock) A federal grand jury in Alaska has ...

Jody Mason’s recent op-ed (“Coverage of trawling’s role in Alaska halibut decline was a public service”) presents a statistic about halibut and salmon bycatch that, without context, leads readers to ...

Over the past decade, it's become more difficult for commercial halibut fishermen off Alaska's coasts to catch enough to meet their quotas, as the flat whitefish have become less abundant and smaller.

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 ...