Halibut

Maine’s Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research, which has helped to launch some of the state’s most innovative aquaculture businesses, is now the subject of international interest too, helping to attract Ki…

Linn Therese Skår Hosteland grew up helping her family produce salmon, cod and halibut on a farm in western Norway. Despite wanting to escape the sector at 15, she has no regrets at returning in 2014 – first as a journal…

Dr Andrew Davie argues that, despite the struggles of Europe's cod and tuna aquaculture industries, there is still scope for the region’s fish farmers to diversify from the production of salmonid species.

Budget deadlock threatens Alaskan fisheries

The West Greenland offshore Greenland halibut fishery has achieved Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification as a sustainable and well-managed fishery.

Alaskas salmon season officially gets underway in less than two weeks. The first fishery for sockeye and king salmon is set for May 18 at Copper River and the town of Cordova is buzzing, said Christa Hoover, executive di…

The values of Alaska salmon permits are on a downward slide, while prices for quota shares of other catches notably halibut, black cod and various crabs continue to skyrocket.

Alaska has had two weeks of strong halibut landings, prior to the opening of the main halibut season in Russia, according to this weeks Tradex Foods 3-Minute Market Insight.

US - Alaska crabbers are hauling back pots from the Panhandle to the Bering Sea, and reduced catches are resulting in record prices for their efforts.

US - The International Pacific Halibut Commission was here in Victoria B.C. last week discussing the catch limits for the 2017 Halibut fishery, reports Rob Reierson in the Tradex Foods 3-Minute market Insight.

US - More Pacific halibut will be going to market this year due to an overall boost in the harvests for the West Coast, British Columbia and Alaska. The coast wide catch of 31.4 million pounds reflects a 5.1 percent incr…

US - Bering Sea fish stocks are booming but its a mixed bag for groundfish in the Gulf of Alaska.

US - As Alaskas iconic halibut fishery wraps up this week, stakeholders are holding their breath to learn if catches might ratchet up slightly again in 2017. Meanwhile, prices for hard to get shares of the halibut catch …

US - An unexpected closure in the Gulf of Alaska will leave many West coast vendors scrambling for inventories of flatfish this Fall, reports Rob Reierson in the Tradex Foods 3-Minute Market Insight.

US - Boats in the Gulf of Alaska should begin targeting Arrowtooth Flounder (Atheresthes stomias) towards the end of the month, following weeks of poor fishing of Pollock and Cod, report Rob Reierson and Kyla Ganton in t…

NORWAY - A Norwegian fish farm that is developing methods to produce farmed Atlantic halibut is set for a massive expansion in production thanks to a fresh injection of cash.

US - Alaskan Salmon Harvests outside of Bristol Bay are having a difficult season, with catch totals well below season estimates, report Rob Reierson and Kyla Ganton in the Tradex Foods 3-Minute market Insight.

US - Fish stomachs could help solve the mystery of why Alaska halibut are so small for their age. Halibut weights are about one-third of what they were 30 years ago, meaning a halibut weighing 120 pounds in the late 1980…

US - Alaskas halibut stocks are showing signs of an uptick and fishermens catches will not be slashed for the first time in 15 years.

US - Despite some encouraging signs that Pacific halibut stocks are stabilizing after being on a downward spiral for nearly two decades, catches could decrease slightly in most regions again next year. That is if fishery…