Pacific halibut season opens Sunday, March 6 statewide in Alaska, according to a final rule just posted in the Federal Register by NOAA Fisheries. The regulations, adopted at the annual meeting of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two boys from Craig, Alaska, gained notoriety this week after catching a 100-pound halibut on their own aboard a 14-foot skiff.

Follow Eivin Kilcher on an Alaskan halibut catch and cook adventure featuring fishing fresh seafood and outdoor cooking in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This story was supported by grants from the Pulitzer Center and the Alaska Center for Excellence in Journalism, in partnership with the Anchorage Daily News and the Northern Journal. ABOARD THE ORACLE ...

Oct. 2—OROFINO, Idaho — They gathered as they normally do, these diehard fans of steelhead, spey rods and the Clearwater River. By about 9 a.m. on the last Saturday in September, they'd nearly ...

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 ...