The final day of the 2011 commercial halibut fishery was on Friday, and the season ended with Kodiak overtaking Homer as the top port for halibut landings in the state. It’s virtually the first time that’s happened since the Individual Fishery Quota, or IFQ, management system was put in place in the mid 1990’s.
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Marcia Lynn is a reporter at KBBI in Homer.
