Halibut commission weighs 2016 harvest recommendations

Commercial and sport fishing fleets in some parts of Alaska will be allowed to harvest more fish, under recommendations presented to the International Pacific Halibut Commission.
Commissioners listened to the reports of staff biologists at their interim meeting in Seattle Tuesday morning.
Commissioners heard data supporting increased halibut harvests in 6 of 8 sub-areas in the Gulf of Alaska.
The interim meeting of the International Pacific Halibut Commission is our first look at the huge volume