Offshore aquaculture could soon move from concept to reality along Florida’s Gulf Coast. Research shows Americans now eat more farmed seafood than wild-caught, and the vast majority of it is imported.

The boat was slicing through choppy waves many miles out to sea when the cry went out and fingers pointed the captain toward a patch of blue water, boiling with gray froth. It was a pogie ball, a ...

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 likely ...

An aquaculture cage floats in the Caribbean Sea near Puerto Rico. (NOAA) Floating cages with fish by the thousands may be popping in the Gulf of Mexico under a controversial plan that was backed by ...

An aquaculture cage floats in the Caribbean Sea near Puerto Rico. Floating cages with fish by the thousands may be popping in the Gulf of Mexico under a controversial plan that was backed by President ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump’s first-term push to open the Gulf of Mexico and other federal waters to fish farming has come to a halt in the early days of his second term. A federal judge in Washington ...

Officials and volunteers are searching the Gulf for Randall Spivey and Brandon Billmaier, who were first reported missing on Friday evening.

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 ...

In Manatee County, FWC said very low concentrations were found offshore, along with background concentrations in Hillsborough ...

The Coast Guard and a fleet of private vessels are searching for Fort Myers attorney Randall Spivey, 57, and his 33-year-old ...