WA and Alaska Halibut Fishing Crews See Troubling Signs in Recent Harvests
Skipper Robert Hanson seeks halibut on a stretch of graveled sea bottom ripped by the powerful tides of the Aleutian Islands. There, he drops a mile of line carrying nearly 600 baited hooks.
Hanson, for more than three decades, has roamed the waters off Alaska to find halibut, long-lived flat fish that can reach lengths of up to 8 feet.
During his career, the fishing has become a lot tougher, and, last year, a fall fishing trip in the Bering Sea was an outright disaster...
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