The Valdez Halibut Derby record, set in 2017, stands at 374 pounds. For comparison, the all-tackle world record for Pacific ...

Seattle — In 1911, Tordenskjold, a 75-foot schooner hewed from old-growth fir, left the Ballard, Wash., docks for its first season of halibut fishing off Alaska. Back then, sails supplemented ...

Long-line caught halibut await unloading in Petersburg. (Angela Denning/KFSK) A joint U.S. and Canadian commission that regulates halibut voted last week to boost this year’s fishing limits for ...

Simeon Swetzof Jr. has been a halibut fisherman for more than 30 years. He's also the mayor of St. Paul, a town of about 500 people, mostly Alaska Native Aleuts, in the remote Pribilof Islands.

This Aug. 7, 2016, photo provided by Abigail Collins of KFSK radio in Petersburg, Alaska, shows fisherman Brian Mattson and the nearly 400-pound halibut he and Doug Corl caught in southeast Alaska.

The International Pacific Halibut Commission Friday approved an increase in halibut catch limits for most of the coast. The joint U.S. and Canadian body oversees management of the prized bottom ...

A long list of crabbing issues, decisions on halibut catch sharing, and groundfish regulations will dominate a fall meeting of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council beginning Wednesday in ...

Firm, snow-white fresh halibut steaks cut from those huge, almost one-dimensional fish have become almost an everyday pleasure for home cooks far from Alaska’s coastal waters where the halibut swim.

OPINION: Alaska sets a poor precedent by allowing a blatant abuse of halibut stocks and the people who depend on them.

Fish stomachs could help solve the mystery of why Alaska halibut are so small for their age.Halibut weights are about one-third of what they were 30 years.

This early halibut hook from the Tlingit tribe Xootsnoowú (fortress of brown bears) was collected in Angoon, Alaska, by John J. McLean in 1882, and is now in the collection of the Smithsonian’s ...