Florida residents and environmental activists gathered online today voicing opposition to a proposed fish farm in the Gulf of Mexico near Sarasota. The testimony comes less than a week after Florida ...

Countless fish corpses have washed up on Gulf beaches, and many of the area’s landlubbers complain of nagging coughs and sneezing. 3 Red tides struck the Southwest Florida coast this week ...

Floating cages with fish by the thousands may be popping in the Gulf of Mexico under a controversial plan that was backed by President-elect Donald Trump’s administration four years ago and is ...

This whole idea of fish farming in the Gulf was supposed to solve some problems — more fresh, affordable food, more business, a way to compete with cheaper imported fish from Asia.

In the decade since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, researchers from the University of South Florida have circled the Gulf of Mexico, catching fish and cutting them open in search of toxic pollution.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is the latest Florida agency to announce plans to implement the name "Gulf of America." ... "Renaming the Gulf of Mexico is not important.

NOAA announced April 25 that the red snapper fishing season in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico for vessels with for-hire permits will last 79 days from June 1 through Aug. 19.

The Gulf of Mexico is better for catching yellowtail snapper fish than the Florida Keys. Here’s where to find them around the Tampa Bay area ...

Local angler catches African pompano in Florida Gulf of Mexico near Bradenton. The large 45.2-pound fish could be a new world record.

More:Florida's biggest catches are sometimes controversial It was the "roll" of a 15-pound tarpon. These fish will "gulp" air when they are on the move, or in water with low oxygen.

A Florida man has been hospitalized at a Tampa hospital after contracting a life-threatening flesh-eating bacteria while fishing out in the Gulf of Mexico. Mike Walton is being treated at Tampa ...

If you fish along the Gulf of Mexico coast, you might come across a striped fish with human-like teeth. Sheepshead fish (Archosargus probatocephalus) are omnivorous saltwater fish that live along ...