Alaska Halibut Prices Sink at the Dock As First Fresh Fish Come In
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Fish Radio with Laine Welch] - March 28, 2018
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch. Halibut prices sink at the docks.
Prices for halibut are sinking like a stone as the season’s first fresh fish cross the Alaska docks. The fishery opened on March 24.
Traditionally, the first landings fetch the highest prices and then drop as the market settles out.
That’s not the case this year.
Prices at $4.50 to $5 a pound at major ports are $2 or so lower than fishermen have been ...
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