Fresh-caught Gulf fish like snapper, pompano and grouper sit on ice at Brooks Dockside Seafood in Inglis on May 1. While no fish farmers have proposed raising these species, some commercial fishermen ...

Florida's farm-raised oysters are filtering millions of gallons of water daily while creating jobs and reviving marine ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A federal judge ruled against a national permit for offshore fish farms, citing environmental concerns. The ruling is a setback for the development of offshore aquaculture in U.S. federal waters. The ...

In its brief history, Cabot Citrus Farms has become a premier golf destination in one of the golfiest states in America. Florida, though, is also famous for another outdoor pastime: fishing.

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, ...