Cowlitz,

If you delve into your research just a tad deeper you'll find that pretty much ALL large halibut (say over 150lbs. or so) are female.

from the NOAA site:

"The Pacific halibut is the largest flatfish known, with females living 40 years or more and reaching 2.5 m and 300 kg. Males are smaller (1.5 m) and have shorter maximum life spans, near 25 years. Spawning occurs during the winter in deep water (180-450 m) along the continental slope at a number of well known locations in the Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, and Gulf of Alaska south to British Columbia. Females spawn repeatedly over the season, producing as many as 2 million eggs.


Hooknose,

Nobody's denying that the halibut in the pic is a very impressive sight. We were just expressing a touch of sadness and concern that a rare specimen so large as this one is now relegated to probably being wasted because it's meat is pretty much worthless.

If the commercials hadn't killed it, she would have continued to grow and potentially produced thousands of baby halibut.