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 ...

• 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 ...

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.

On March 19, wild Alaska halibut and sablefish, also known as black cod, began making its way into home kitchens, restaurants and retailers nationwide with the start of wild Alaska halibut and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alaska halibut is facing strong headwinds that have dampened the value of the catch shares needed to go fishing. Increasing imports of Atlantic halibut from eastern Canada, reports of several million ...

More often than it should, my mind slips away to Alaska. To follow, you’d need to fly to Anchorage, rent a car, then drive to Homer, as I did in the summer of 1994. Homer is nice — a quirky hamlet on ...

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 ...