What Do Halibut Eat? (Favorite Prey and Baits)
While juvenile halibut primarily feed on zooplankton and small crustaceans, bigger specimens eat all kinds of fish, crustaceans, and gastropods. Occasionally, halibut can also become cannibalistic.
While juvenile halibut primarily feed on zooplankton and small crustaceans, bigger specimens eat all kinds of fish, crustaceans, and gastropods. Occasionally, halibut can also become cannibalistic.
Atlantic halibut are the biggest species of the three, with a maximum size of about 15 feet and 700lb. Pacific halibut can reach a maximum size of about 8 feet and 500lb, while Greenland halibut can only reach a size of about 4 feet and 100lb.