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Halibut taken by anglers are generally 15 to 20 lb (6.8 to 9.1 kg) in weight, but fish over 150 lb (68 kg) are regularly caught. The current Alaska state record for a sport-caught halibut is 459 lb (208 kg), [6] and a fish must weigh at least 250 lb (113 kg) to qualify for the state's trophy fish program. Anglers use stout saltwater gear to ...
Fishermen in Seward, Alaska, with a fresh catch of halibut Halibut caught off the coast of Raspberry Island, Alaska, in 2007: The two fish being held up are 18 to 23 kg (40 to 50 lb) Halibut tend to be a mottled dark brown on their upward-facing side and white on their underside Filleting a Pacific halibut taken in Cook Inlet, Alaska. A halibut ...
Alaskan halibut often weigh over 100 pounds (45 kg). Specimens under 20 pounds (9.1 kg) are often thrown back when caught. With a land area of 586,412 square miles (1,518,800 km 2), not counting the Aleutian islands, Alaska is one-fifth the size of lower 48 states, and as Ken Schultz [4] notes in his chapter on Alaska [5] "Alaska is a bounty of more than 3,000 rivers, more than 3 million lakes ...
In 2007, the waters around the island produced a 350-pound (156-kg) halibut and many boats full of fish weighing over 100 pounds (45 kg) each. The island's coastal ecology has been subjected to "unprecedented amounts of ocean trash" transported by wind and currents from Japan's March 2011 tsunami , according to the Center for Alaskan Coastal ...
Adak is the southernmost community in Alaska and on the same latitude as Haida Gwaii in Canada, and London, England. It is less than three degrees of latitude north of the 49th parallel , which forms the western part of the land border between the Contiguous United States and Canada.
Alaska: Arctic Roadrunner. Anchorage Arctic Roadrunner is an Anchorage institution, and most reviewers agree the halibut burger ($12) is top-notch. The lodge-like dining room has a fireplace to ...
Amid the West's wacky month of record-breaking warmth, record-breaking rain and record-breaking snowlessness, Alaska had its month for the history books, albeit in a very different c.
The Alaskan subspecies of moose (Alces alces gigas) is the largest in the world; adult males weigh 1,200 to 1,600 pounds (542–725 kg), and adult females weigh 800 to 1,300 pounds (364–591 kg) [17] Alaska's substantial moose population is controlled by predators such as bears and wolves, which prey mainly on vulnerable calves, as well as by ...