ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - A 144-pound halibut has placed a Fairbanks woman at the top of the board in the Valdez Halibut ...

Fishing packages can run from about $1,200 to $1,500 per day at Homer Ocean Charters and Cascade Creek Lodge, which includes fishing, meals, lodging, equipment and fish processing.

Melissa Hurd of Fairbanks leads the Valdez Halibut Derby with a 144.2-pound catch. More fishing fun is ahead with the Kids ...

In 2022, the commercial halibut fishery in the Gulf of Alaska killed and discarded nearly twice as many halibut — nearly one million pounds — as the Gulf of Alaska trawl fleet.