You will find sablefish on menus at fine dining establishments throughout Alaska, often prepared with Asian-inspired glazes ...

The Pacific halibut fishery opened on March 14 amid little fanfare and flattened markets. The first fish of the eight-month season typically attracts the highest prices and is rushed fresh to high-end ...

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 ...

Soak up the breathtaking Alaskan scenery on this sprawling island that offers plenty of small town charm, wildlife sightings, ...

Sales of Alaska’s most popular seafoods are being hit hard by markets upended by the coronavirus, but perhaps none is getting battered worse than halibut. Along with the big losses in the lucrative ...

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 ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – In an ongoing dispute between commercial fishermen and the growing halibut charter business, a federal agency has issued new regulations keeping the current bag limit for guided ...

PETERSBURG, Alaska (AP) – It wasn’t a record breaker, but it was still a helluva halibut. Petersburg radio station KFSK reports that fishermen Brian Mattson and Doug Corl hauled in the catch of a ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A Colorado man fishing in the waters of southcentral Alaska has hauled in a 337-pound halibut — easily the biggest catch in the region this season. The Anchorage Daily News reports ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- In an ongoing dispute between commercial fishermen and the growing halibut charter business, a federal agency has issued new regulations keeping the current bag limit for guided ...

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to overturn new halibut bycatch limits on deep-sea trawlers that fish in federal waters off Alaska. The lawsuit was filed by Groundfish Forum Inc., ...

Halibut are the primary target for Indigenous fishermen in parts of Alaska. Populations are declining, leaving less fish to go around, especially as factory trawlers are scooping them up with the ...