A freediver who braved Alaska’s frigid waters in search of a spearfishing challenge has set a world record for Pacific halibut. “I love a good challenge and Alaska was definitely the right playing ...

It's called the halibut excluder — a scary name for a nifty device, especially if you're a hapless halibut caught in a cod trawl net off Kodiak Island. The island's fishermen are working with ...

The halibut fishery has been so good that it appears as though they’re stacked like a huge cord of firewood on the sandy bottom of Admiralty Inlet and eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca. Not only is there ...

Spring weather has been hard to come by this year, but at least there’s halibut. The return of the season for these ocean-floor-dwelling fish has long heralded spring and its arrival is still ...

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.

THE COASTAL HALIBUT season is underway after a lengthy, pandemic-related delay, while Puget Sound marine areas 5-10 anglers can once again target halibut after spending 21 days fishing for the ...

HOMER -- In the Halibut Capital of the World, it's harder to catch a small fish than it is to reel in a big one. That wasn't an unhappy situation for four visitors from Roseburg, Oregon. About a week ...

The halibut fishery of the North Pacific -- long touted as a model for wise fisheries management and the goodness of privatizing commercial fisheries -- is now in such dire straits regulators were ...