Halibut seasons and subarea quotas

For 2025 season dates, please see individual quota area webpages:

2025 Pacific halibut landings summary

For the 2025 in-season coastwide landing summary visit the International Pacific Halibut Commission website.  

Washington sport fishery landings will be updated here as the season progresses. Not that average weight and total weights reported and quota amounts are expressed using the International Pacific Halibut Commission's (IPHC) net weight metric (see IPHC glossary). The net weight is 25% less than the original (a.k.a. round) weight of the fish. 

Puget Sound, North Coast, and South Coast

Area & QuotaWeekDates 
open
Weekly
Cumulative
Anglers 
(number)
Halibut 
(number)
Average weight 
(pounds)
PoundsPoundsquota takenPounds 
remaining
Puget Sound - quota: 79,772 lbs14Apr 3 - 61,36240913.55,5565,5567.0%74,216
15Apr 7 - 131,20126713.53,6229,17711.5%70,595
16Apr 14 - 201,41429813.03,94613,12316.5%66,649
17Apr 21 - 271,92334715.45,36618,48923.2%61,283
18Apr 28 - May 486113813.31,78620,27525.4%59,497
19May 5 - 111,65945214.16,25926,53433.3%53,238
North Coast - quota: 130,409 lbs18May 1, 2, 365834912.94,5114,5113.5%125,898
19May 8, 9, 1062042011.34,7569,2687.1%121,141
South Coast - quota: 63,117 lbs18May 1, 468730611.53,5173,5175.6%59,600
19May 6, 8, 1158141010.44,2507,76712.3%55,350
South Coast (nearshore) - quota: 2,000 lbs18 00NA000.0%2,000
19 NANANA000.0%2,000

Note: For Puget Sound, weekly estimates are available only for Marine Areas 5 and 6. All other areas of Puget Sound have catch estimates only for two-month "wave".  The wave-based estimates will be reported here by splitting the pounds evenly across the open weeks during the wave. The great majority of catch comes from Marine Areas 5 and 6.

Columbia River (includes landings into Oregon)

Area & QuotaWeekDates 
open
Weekly
Cumulative
Anglers 
(number)
Halibut 
(number)
WA PoundsOR PoundsAverage weight 
(pounds)
Total PoundsPoundsQuota takenPounds 
remaining
Columbia River - quota: 18,587 lbs18May 1, 2, 43342562,3551139.22,4672,46713.3%16,120
19May 8, 9, 112271842,06837611.22,4444,91226.4%13,675
Columbia River (nearshore) - quota: 500 lbs18 0000NA000.0%500
19 0000NA000.0%500

Public recreational halibut season meetings

WDFW hosted two virtual recreational halibut meetings on Oct. 3, 2024, and Aug. 13, 2024, to begin planning for the 2025 fishing seasons. The Department took preliminary recommendations for changes to the Catch Sharing Plan and season structure to the Pacific Fishery Management Council meetings on Sept. 19-24 in Spokane and Nov. 13-19 in Costa Mesa, CA. Review WDFW's report (PDF) with the 2025 halibut season options.

Previous halibut fishery summaries