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 ...

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 ...

As a longtime halibut charter fisherman and small-business owner, I want to thank the Anchorage Daily News — and reporter Hal Bernton, in partnership with The Seattle Times and Northern Journal — for ...

U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) welcomed a decision by the International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC) to defer review of a regulatory proposal that would have altered the state’s unguided ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.