Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Sometimes a chef’s commitment to using only fresh, local ingredients is a fine and noble thing. And sometimes it’s just a pain. Take halibut: When I worked ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... If there’s a date that never fails to put a smile on my face, it’s March 15, which is not an obscure holiday but the beginning of Alaskan halibut season.

• Season the halibut fillets with salt & pepper, and gently set in hot pan • Using a metal spatula, flip halibut after two minutes, having created a nice sear. Put pan in pre-heated oven for 12-15 ...

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 ...

Sales of Alaska’s most popular seafoods are being hit hard by markets upended by the coronavirus, but perhaps none is getting battered worse than halibut. Along with the big losses in the lucrative ...

In recent seasons, halibut users across the state have been tightening their belts. The biologists tell us that though the total number of halibut in Alaskan waters is at a very sustainable rate, ...

IN Sunday’s guest column, the Central Bering Sea Fishermen’s Association referred to trawl fishing as a grave threat and an “environmentally disastrous policy” that has devastated their halibut ...

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 ...