The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has announced that the recreational Pacific halibut fishery will reopen on Friday, Sept. 3 at 12 a.m. and remain open until Nov. 15 or until the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The fishing boat Oracle longlines for halibut last year near Unalaska Island, in the Aleutians. (Photo by Loren Holmes/ADN) The ...

A woman from Fairbanks, Alaska, has taken the lead in the annual Valdez Halibut Derby with a catch last Friday that tipped the scale at 144.2 pounds. Melissa Hurd told Alaska’s News Source that the ...

Halibut season is coming up quickly in April with some positive changes for halibut anglers. The annual limit will be raised to six fish from four when the season kicks off April 4 in Puget Sound and ...

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 ...

The Pacific halibut stock remains below historical levels at the start of 2026, with biomass estimates uncertain and future recruitment continuing to complicate harvest decisions, the International ...

Additional days have been added to the summer all-depth Pacific halibut fishery in the Columbia River and Central Coast subareas. Between Leadbetter Point, Washington, and Cape Falcon, added all-depth ...

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) will host a public meeting from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. July 29 to receive input on the 2026 recreational Pacific halibut season. The meeting is being ...

The Largest Halibut Ever Caught Angler Marco Liebenow never expected his fishing trip to turn into a record breaking battle. Angler Marco Liebenow never expected his fishing trip to turn into a ...

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 ...

It’s travel time! And while it’s trendy to bemoan crowded planes, gas prices and long lines, the fact is that travel is a blessing. Those of us lucky enough to travel sit in comparatively comfortable ...