‘Now I know why they shoot them’: Texas fisherman lands 8-foot halibut near Kodiak Island
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SpringVelocity
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Worm fest
wildmanyeah
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Cut the gills, tail wrap it and tie it to a cleat tuna style??
Chasin' Dreams
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Good luck getting that blood taste out of the meat after that long of not bleeding it and having it hang around in the sun. Check out the separation of the meat fibers on the fillet too. Signs of a poorly handled and warm meat fish. What a shameful end for such great breeding stock.
Pineapple Express
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Wow, that's sad to see. Take some pictures at the side of the boat and let it swim free!
Chasin' Dreams
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Yup true as well. The big ones can be poor quality from the get go. Have eaten some from very big ones from our friends commercial boat and weren't near as good as smaller ones. I'll take a chicken any day. Best IMO. But I'd even trade a chicken for a nice Ling any day.
and likely a female, as well...
Old, tough and wormy. Also prime breeding stock and yes the big ones are all females. One can only imagine how many eggs that one produced given its size.
As I understand it, taking large females does still occur in Canada, but extremely rarely by regular Canadian sport anglers which are limited by our very small unfair allocation of Canada's total available Halibut Quota and forced to self regulate it by only allowing small Halibut to be caught in the Public Sector Halibut fishery to give us a decent length of season. As a result we contribute to and carry the burden of Halibut conservation more so than any other sector.
Large Halibut female prime breeding stock, can be and are killed and sold by the commercial sector in Canada for no other purpose than to stuff the pockets of a few and increasingly, overtime, the fat cat corporate quota owners siting in Vancouver office towers, with over 90% of that Halibut going to export.
As I understand it, taking large females does still occur in Canada, but extremely rarely by regular Canadian sport anglers which are limited by our very small unfair allocation of Canada's total available Halibut Quota and forced to self regulate it by only allowing small Halibut to be caught in the Public Sector Halibut fishery to give us a decent length of season. As a result we contribute to and carry the burden of Halibut conservation more so than any other sector.
Large Halibut female prime breeding stock, can be and are killed and sold by the commercial sector in Canada for no other purpose than to stuff the pockets of a few and increasingly, overtime, the fat cat corporate quota owners siting in Vancouver office towers, with over 90% of that Halibut going to export.
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I mean I have the largest moose rack I have shot on the wall.....why not 8' of sweet Alaskan brown; it could double as a coffee table, dinner table, card table.Sad but true....
fogged in
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you can send your thoughts to the Anchorage News on the link!!!
SpringVelocity
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Guided anglers can keep a large halibut.
https://chinookshores.com/2019/04/2019-regulations-for-charter-halibut-anglers-announced/
Cuba Libre
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How many times are we going to repeat this ? ---- "Its wormy, it doesn't taste good, its a big breeder, its just not right to kill a big one like that..." Enough ! It was legal and its dead-- Get over it !
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