Cost more to ship the halibut home than it cost for the charter to catch them. We had four between my wife and I. We drove up that trip and still had another month or so before we were going to be home, so had them kept in the freezer in Seward and shipped when we got home. Flying next time and will bring fish home as checked bags. The halibut sure was good though.
I had some fisherman friends that would find a cannery close to the docks and they would pay the cannery to can their fish and then they would just mail it home to themselves.
They did not say what it cost them but they said that they did not need to keep them frozen until they wanted to use them that way.
