Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A whale shark feeds 97 miles offshore from Fort Myers Beach on June 9. ©Douglas R. Clifford 97 MILES OFFSHORE FLORIDA — The ...

A pilot project for the first large-scale fish farm off the Gulf coast of Sarasota County has received federal approval. Hawaii-based Ocean Era will create pens 40 miles offshore, where 20,000 red ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. March is Captain Devin Calderon's favorite month to fish. "Right now through the end of March is the peak of the fishing season," ...

Neil Sims has a vision. He imagines thousands of red drum fish swimming in the open Gulf, the Florida sun glinting off coppery scales. These red drum are farmed, not wild. They circle inside a ...

A bipartisan coalition of Gulf Coast lawmakers is pushing to change a 73-year-old law that limits their states' maritime ...

Neil Sims has a vision. He imagines thousands of red drum fish swimming in the open Gulf, the Florida sun glinting off coppery scales. These red drum are farmed, not wild. They circle inside a ...

There are few better places to cast a line than in Destin, Florida, which is purported to be the "World’s Luckiest Fishing ...

If the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management gets its way, 19.88 million acres of Eastern Gulf will be opened to offshore drilling. Eastern Gulf offshore rigs could be as close as 100 miles south ...

In 2024, the Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies asked the people of the U.S. Gulf Coast to envision bold science-based ideas to create safer and more resilient communities where ...