...among user groups over the last few months. Commercial halibut fishermen have absorbed seven straight years of harvest...That sort of thinking rings hollow for the commercial halibut fishermen, whose catch of juveniles on longlines at...

...that's probably most important is it just throws everything out," said Buck Laukitis, a longtime Homer commercial halibut fisherman and president of the North Pacific Fisheries Association, a fishing advocacy group. "There is no status quo...

...of the House Resources Committee, was a founding member of the Alaska Marine Conservation Council, was a commercial halibut fisherman from 1974 through 2009, and lives in Homer.

...to Alaska and spend several hundred or thousands of dollars to catch one halibut per day, he contends. But commercial halibut fishermen like Roland Maw, executive director of the United Cook Inlet Drift Association, are skeptical of such statements...

...Association. "It's not your job. We don't hire you to do fisheries politics." Laukitis pointed out that commercial halibut fishermen also contribute to the economy, with 1.3 million pounds of individual fishing quotas held by 479 local fishermen...

...that the IPHC restriction would lead to cancellations of already-booked trips and hurt their businesses. Commercial halibut fishermen said the charter fleet has been exceeding its guideline harvest limit, and that it?s about time the IPHC...

...in terms of action,? Leaman said. Leaman visited Homer at the invitation of Don Lane, a longtime Homer commercial halibut fisherman, to talk about the IPHC process. Most of Leaman?s talk had to do with the science behind halibut how...