It's one of my favorite fishes. I happen to have plenty of favorite fishes though. Halibut has been overfished in the North Atlantic, like Cod and most other things. Atlantic vs Pacific Halibut.
This old photo of a handliner is from our favorite seafood cookbook, Howard Mitcham's The Provincetown Seafood Cookbook. As is typical of P'town, lots of Portuguese recipes.
"It's a true classic, one of the most influential of my life." --Anthony Bourdain, from the new introduction