...percent in area 2c. The regulatory areas span from the central Gulf of Alaska to the southeast portion. NMFS fisheries specialist Rachel Baker said that charter boats comprise 10 percent of the halibut removal in area 3a. Commercial fishermen...

...indicate a long-term trend of declining population, according to Philip Moy, a University of Wisconsin Sea Grant fisheries specialist. ''It's like the perch,'' Moy said. ''They could come back and they could become really abundant again...

...We need to do whatever we can,'' said Bridget Mansfield, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration fisheries specialist who led a three-hour discussion Wed-nesday on what should go into a recovery plan. ''Realistically, I think...