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U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, yesterday posted the following on Facebook: I'm hearing from halibut and sablefish IFQ fishermen tha...

The 2023 cost recovery fee percentage for the halibut and sablefish individual fishing quota program is 3 percent. That's the maximum al...

The National Marine Fisheries Service is denying a COVID-related request for another season of halibut and sablefish IFQ transfer relief. He...

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council has passed a motion requesting emergency regulations to "allow the temporary transfer of ...

Details in this press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Anchorage.

Here's the motion as passed.

Here's a  letter  asking for emergency action to "allow those individuals that have IFQ in their own names to be exempt from being ...

Tomorrow is a big day for individual fishing quota (IFQ) halibut and sablefish players. In a special meeting starting at noon, the North P...

The Alaska Supreme Court has ruled that amortization of commercial fishing permits and quota shares may not be deducted from income for chil...

Federal authorities have posted their national enforcement report for the first six months of the year. One Alaska case carries a $156,09...

Here's an interesting opinion from the Alaska Supreme Court in a case involving a marital dispute over individual fishing quota.

When Alaska's halibut and sablefish fisheries went to individual fishing quotas in 1995, regulators envisioned predominantly owner-opera...

The state is inviting offers for "repossessed" individual fishing quota. Here's a public notice with more information.

The halibut fishery closed at noon Sunday after an eight-month season. As usual, fishermen holding individual fishing quota left very few ha...