Halibut fishery

Halibut fishing in the North Pacific trade from the late 19th Century and is today one of the largest and most profitable area. Waters of Canada and the United States, especially in long lines, hooks to pieces of octopus (Octopus) or other bait at regular intervals and fastened by a line several kilometers into the background. Normally, the ship returned a day after several hours online. 

International careful treatment is necessary because aquatic species in Japan, the United States, Canada, Russia, and perhaps (if the species is known Ohyo in Japanese), mature slowly. Halibut do not reproduce or eight years, when about 30 inches (76 cm), fisheries, trade for less than this length, it prevents them to reproduce, and is contrary to the provisions of the United States and Canada to ensure sustainability . Manages the International Pacific Halibut Pacific halibut (IPHC). 

In most of the modern era, works like a halibut fishing derby. The regulators said the days when fishing was open (usually 24% u201348 hours) and the fish quickly, the book as much as possible in this regard. Such an approach to the full participation of fishing in the same regulatory authorities to organize control of the amount of fish by controlling the number and timing of the opening caught. This approach often leads to the risk of fishing holes fixed before the time was unknown, forcing the fishermen to leave the port, regardless of the weather. This approach is also pushed a new application on the market in a few weeks a year, if the saturation was setting the price of fishing .

Individual fishing quotas

In 1995, regulators granted in the United States on individual fishing quotas (IQ), there is a fishery participants on a documented historic vessel is based. These quotas are granted to persons with a certain percentage of the total allowable catch per year (APR). Fishing can occur at any time of 9 months. ITQ is the safety and quality improvement provide a steady market for fresh grouper. Critics of the program because the owners sell their shares and the fish can be a public good ITQ system "was" of public funds and private sectors. Nominations for the fishermen who did not belong to the initial capital base of the IFQ proposal (the purchase of shares and the boat), the cost is too high. 

It is also an important sport fisheries in Alaska and British Columbia where halibut are a popular game and food fish. Fishermen use large rods and reels 80-150 pounds (36-68 kg) lines, and often bait with herring, large models, or even whole salmon heads. Halibut is a very strong, so that this procedure as well as commercial and sport fishing is normally not a big halibut over 50-100 pounds (23-45 kg) before landing them. Alaska sport fishing is an important part of tourism in the economy .