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The International Pacific Halibut Commission is looking to conduct a recreational discard mortality study .

The National Marine Fisheries Service is taking public comment until Aug. 12 on the proposed halibut catch sharing plan. As expected, th...

The National Marine Fisheries Service today announced the rules for charter halibut anglers this season. In Area 2C (Southeast Alaska), the...

This letter to the editor in Sunday's Anchorage Daily News captures perfectly, it seems to me, the situation the commercial halibut indu...

The House Special Committee on Fisheries is scheduled to meet at 1 p.m. Sept. 1 in Anchorage for an "overview hearing on Pacific halibu...

A Washington, D.C., judge has denied a motion for a preliminary injunction against new federal regulations limiting the number of halibut ch...

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council, meeting in Anchorage this morning, is expected to discuss a possible move to relax the new 37-...

Charter Operators of Alaska, a Homer-based nonprofit, today sued the federal government in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. The lawsu...

Can you believe it? Another halibut season is upon us with the 2011 fishery starting at noon tomorrow. The season last eight months, closing...

Gov. Sean Parnell yesterday offered some interesting legislation for state lawmakers in Juneau to consider. Introduced as Senate Bill 67 an...

A federal judge today declared the National Marine Fisheries Service the winner in a lawsuit some halibut charter boat operators were pressi...

Now that a federal judge has declined to block the one-fish rule, tourists and other anglers who go fishing on halibut charter boats in Sout...

Federal Judge Judge Rosemary M. Collyer of Washington, D.C., is scheduled to hear oral argument at 2 p.m. ET Thursday in the charter halibut...