Charter operators in the Gulf of Alaska will soon be able to buy halibut quota from willing commercial fishermen. That’s after funding was included for a new catch-sharing program in the federal ...
These totals come as reports have indicated Pacific halibut spawning biomass has dropped to its lowest levels in 40 years.
HALIBUT CATCH ESTIMATES for the first three days of the eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca and Puget Sound halibut season showed that 14-percent of anglers came away with a flatfish during the April 7-9 ...
Dock Totals 7/10 – 7/16: 4424 anglers aboard 189 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings this past week caught 397 barracuda, 793 bluefin tuna (to 210 pounds), 1 blue perch, 4 bocaccio, 1868 ...
Capt. Jim Walsh on his 100-foot charter boat, American Classic, left the Hampton, New Hampshire, marina at 9 p.m. Sunday. By 4 a.m. he and his crew of 30 anglers were 100 miles offshore in the ...
Halibut catch show there is still plenty of quota poundage to go around for Puget Sound and the North Coast catch areas. Puget Sound, which includes Marine Area 5 (Sekiu), 6 (Eastern Strait of Juan de ...
Federal fishery regulators meeting this week in Anchorage are trying again to end a 15-year battle between two competing fleets that hook halibut for a living. The proposal now on the table would ...
Check out this barn door Halibut we caught in Alaska! What a great day out on the water. We were out here bottom bouncing for ...
Kyle Perry of North Pole reeled in a 76-pound halibut aboard the Sentinel last Thursday. Moments later, Thomas Rakowski II of Valdez hooked into a 115.6-pound halibut the minute his bait on his ...
"It was very exciting. Everybody was screaming and yelling, it was great," he said about the potential record-setting catch. "He could miss the playoffs for the rest of his career, I wouldn't give a ...
Two Tens And A Twenty… sounds like the start of a BBQ recipe to me. But Brent Randol, one of St. Helena’s elite anglers, brought home that much fresh halibut, 40 pounds, from Humboldt Bay. Pro guide ...