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.

SEWARD, Alaska — David Rokser was pedaling his fishing kayak last week, trolling as he went along, hoping to catch a salmon or maybe a rockfish. The Duluth native was on Resurrection Bay in the North ...

"That's not going to fit in the cooler." And the adventure had barely started. North to Alaska It was the second day of a 10-day unguided, do-it-yourself Alaskan fishing trip to the Pacific Ocean near ...

My wife Jeanie, on her quest to see all 50 states, was checking Alaska off the list and was nice enough to invite me to join her. Of course, when her daughter Liesl found out, and that fishing would ...

ABOARD THE ORACLE, North Pacific — Skipper Robert Hanson seeks halibut on a stretch of graveled sea bottom ripped by the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Halibut fishing is struggling. The flat fish, once a mainstay for Alaska fishers — and for American families — can now cost ...

In 2022, the commercial halibut fishery in the Gulf of Alaska killed and discarded nearly twice as many halibut — nearly one million pounds — as the Gulf of Alaska trawl fleet. This fleet, which ...