It could be a stormy summer for Alaska's famed halibut fishery. New regulations aimed at limiting the number of sport-fishing boats will put scores of skippers out of business. Some question the legal ...

With a deadline fast approaching on a federal plan to reduce the number of fish allocated to Alaska halibut charter businesses and hand them over to commercial fishermen, a handful of state ...

Long-line caught halibut await unloading in Petersburg. (Angela Denning/KFSK) Regulations for Alaska halibut charters are looser this summer for the second year in a row. The groups regulating halibut ...

Tension between the commercial and sport charter fleets over southeast Alaska halibut limits is growing as commercial fishermen recently learned the number of halibut they are allowed to catch will ...

Alaska history is full of fishing stories, from fireside salmon consumption 11,000 years ago to the largest commercial landings in 2016. How, where and what we catch is an ever-developing story ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - The government can limit the number of permits for halibut charter boats in the Gulf of Alaska to promote conservation of the prized fish, a federal judge ruled. A trade group, the ...

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council could be taking additional steps to reduce the catch of halibut by the charter fleet in the central Gulf of Alaska next year. Those charters could see some ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) -- Morgan Robidou posed next to the bright aluminum hull of his prized new vessel, a 30-foot fishing boat that he could use to take friends, family or tourists out after salmon or ...

Seward, Alaska - Things got kind of crazy there for awhile, a predictable turn of events when there’s a big halibut at the end of the line. Jerry Stanislowski of Grand Forks, N.D., had just landed a ...