No sooner did Waterfront Times report last month on a curious scarcity of early-season schoolsize dolphin than they began showing up in encouraging numbers.
What’s a national park worth to the towns near it? Plenty in terms of money spent by visitors and local jobs created and sustained by that patronage.
Complete recovery of snook from the catastrophic cold kill of January 2010 has been o-fish-ially proclaimed.
New overnight lodging facilities are so sorely missed at Flamingo in Everglades National Park that potential concessionaires are being offered early payback of their construction costs — $5,3
Lionfish catchers took 14,067 of those little villains out of Florida seawaters during the state’s second annual Lionfish Removal and Awareness Day, actually a whole weekend on May 14-15.
The sawfish is a peculiar creature with a long snoot resembling an oldtime lumberjack’s two-man felling saw, with long teeth on both sides.
Spring is fishing tournament time in southeast Florida, with prize contests for catching almost everything but starfish and plenty of ancillary activities to raise money for worthy causes.
Hollywood buddies Ed White and Bill Stuber fish frequently in South Florida’s coastal mangroves and the Intracoastal.
It’s mating season for horseshoe crabs, who do it on the beach and don’t mind being watched, photographed and televised.
The numbers are in: 2015 set a record for shark attacks around the world with 98 incidents, including six human fatalities.