To divert the water's of the Weeki Wachee or any other river for human consumption has been proposed, but it would upset the ecology irrevocably as many species of saltwater fish require freshwater to spawn in. ...more

April 2, 2009

They come like a gray river flowing through the sea. Spanish mackerel by the hundreds of thousands are beginning their annual migration, a journey that takes them some 400 miles from the Florida Panhandle to the Keys, and for many several hundred miles more back up the east coast before they make the return trip in spring. ...more

October 12, 2008

no matter the electoral outcome. (His rival, John McCain, already has a bustling menagerie, including English springer spaniel Sam, Yorkshire terriers Lucy and Desi, mixed-breed Coco, Oreo the cat, two turtles named Cuff and Link, a ferret, three parakeets and more than a dozen saltwater fish.) ...more

August 14, 2008

According to surveys conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Service, American anglers caught some 468 million saltwater fish of all species last year. Of those, 272 million, or 58 percent, were released alive. ...more

July 23, 2008

A deadly fish virus has been found for the first time in southern Lake Michigan and an inland Ohio reservoir, spurring fears of major fish kills and the virus's possible migration to the Mississippi River. ...more

July 20, 2008

WASHINGTON -- If the presidential election goes to the dogs, John McCain is looking like best in show. From George Washington's foxhound Drunkard to George W. Bush's terriers Barney and Miss Beazley, pets are a longtime presidential tradition for which the presumed Republican nominee seems well prepared, with more than a dozen. ...more

July 8, 2008

It has been so long since we had a real freeze along our shores that many anglers have nearly forgotten the sometimes devastating result of a sudden surge of cold weather. ...more

January 9, 2008

Snook are saltwater fish, but as winter draws near, many that have spent the summer on the warm, shallow grass flats will change their stripes, so to speak, and become freshwater species. ...more

October 12, 2007

State wildlife agents arrested four Tampa fish dealers and charged them with violations stemming from the illegal sale and purchase of freshwater and saltwater fish. ...more

September 27, 2007

TAMPA - State wildlife agents arrested four Tampa fish dealers and charged them with violations stemming from the illegal sale and purchase of freshwater and saltwater fish. Agents with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission received a tip that a loose association of dealers was buying and selling fish illegally. During a four-month investigation beginning May 31, the agents went undercover, buying and selling specially marked fish. "The FWC targets these types of violators to prevent the proliferation of a black market trade that could have serious effects on local fish populations," said Capt. Andy Krause, investigations supervisor, in a news release. ...more

September 26, 2007