Succulent salmon fresh from the river have graced Alaska dinner plates for months. Heavenly halibut have been grill fare even longer. But starting today, a new flavor is available to fish-loving ...

Five years ago, marine ecologist Aaron Galloway surfaced with a ling cod he had spearfished off the coast of Oregon and proceeded to freak out. Endemic to the Pacific coast from Alaska to Baja ...

Large ling cod have started to move into the shallow and the Charter Boat Legacy had a trip to remember at New Year Island. “In my years of fishing Monterey Bay I have never seen fishing this good for ...

Bottom fishing has been excellent out of Westport this spring. Ling cod and rockfish stocks are both healthy, and some recovering stocks have rebounded enough that some rules have been loosened.

Marine experts have discovered that an eerie fish that hunts the waters of the north Pacific Ocean doesn't just have hundreds of teeth in its mouth, it's constantly shedding and replacing them. The ...

MONTEREY – The groundfish season started in Monterey, Half Moon Bay and Bodega Bay on April 1 with top-notch deep water rockfish fishing for the boats that went out. During April, rockfishing is ...

BROOKINGS, Ore. — Don Stroh dropped a large herring over the side of the boat and let it strut its stuff along the ocean bottom, but when his rod doubled over he had no idea what big bottom-dweller ...

Researchers found that selectively fishing for lingcod in protected areas actually avoided hampering the recovery of other fish, including rockfish species listed as overfished. Along the West Coast, ...

JUST AS YOU shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, anglers shouldn’t come down too harshly on lingcod. The bottomfish species’ off-putting appearance, complete with large mouth and sharp teeth, along ...

A ‘hitchhiking’ lingcod can legally be taken as long as it meets the minimum size requirement, according to California Fish & Wildlife officials (Athena Maguire / California Department of Fish & ...

A Southern California angler recently caught a lingcod with such striking coloration that Newport Landing Sportfishing posted the photo to Instagram, asking, “What’s wrong with this fish?” The inside ...

Along the West Coast, lingcod fish are top predators -- voracious eaters that aren't picky about where their next meal comes from. But lingcod in the Pacific Ocean used to be overfished, to the point ...