Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fresh-caught Gulf fish like snapper, pompano and grouper sit on ice at Brooks Dockside Seafood in Inglis on May 1. While no fish ...
On a good day, Sam Walsh can haul in up to 1,000 oysters from the Indian River Lagoon off Ponce Inlet. But Walsh doesn't harvest the tasty mollusks by scooping them up by hand or using tongs to pull ...
Farms aim to keep beluga on the market despite a U.S. import ban. But scientists say that won’t save the species from going extinct in the wild by 2050 Mikola Kopanetskyi waded waist high in an ...
SARASOTA COUNTY (WFLA) — For the last seven years, Hawaii-based Ocean Era has been working to bring a fish farm demonstration to Florida’s Gulf Coast. Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency ...
One of Ocean Era's geodesic cages floats in the water near Kona, Hawaii. Ocean Era hopes to launch a similar test project near Sarasota, Florida. (Photo by Rick Decker, courtesy of Ocean Era) The ...
EPA failed to adequately consider how a newly issued permit for a Gulf Coast fish farm would harm the environment and endangered species, environmental groups contend in two petitions asking the ...
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 ...
Mikola Kopanetskyi waded waist high in an outdoor water tank the size of an above-ground pool, slowly creeping up on the beluga sturgeon swimming in front of him. Once he sneaked close enough, ...