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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wading through the seafood counter these days can leave anyone gasping. If it isn't alarming levels of mercury in swordfish, PCBs in farmed salmon or keeping track of which species are on the verge of ...

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 ...

NEWPORT – Fishery managers added two more days to the popular all-depth sport halibut fishery off the central Oregon coast. Fishing for Pacific halibut will be open Friday, June 29, and Saturday, June ...

The central coast nearshore Pacific halibut fishery closed Monday (July 23) after anglers caught more than seven thousand pounds of the popular game fish in one week. “We tried to keep it open as long ...