Over the past decade, it's become more difficult for commercial halibut fishermen off Alaska's coasts to catch enough to meet ...

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

Fishermen in Alaska and elsewhere are trying to bring more attention to the impacts that trawlers are having on our marine resources.

If you've ever encountered halibut, it was probably as a tasty — and pricey — entree. But in Alaska, it's the subject of a fierce fish battle. On one side are small family-owned fishing boats. On 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 ...

To reduce their unintended take of halibut, vessels in the bottom trawl fleet have an escape hatch in their nets that allows ...

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