CLEARWATER, Fla. — A baby dolphin was rescued on Wednesday under Pier 60 in Clearwater after getting tangled in the remnants of a crab trap. After an unsuccessful attempt to reunite the calf with its ...

Trapped crabs A trio of common spider crabs (Libinia emarginata) trapped within a derelict or "ghost" crab pot pulled from the York River. Derelict crab pot abundance A survey conducted by VIMS in ...

FORT DE SOTO — A team of volunteers boated into Tampa Bay on a recent Saturday morning with their mind welded to a singular mission: Scan the vast waters of Florida’s largest open-water estuary for ...

GALLOWAY — Fishermen call them ghost traps, and the hulks do look a little scary when they break the surface of Great Bay: hairy with marine growth, packed with muck and sometimes remains of long-dead ...

When it comes to blue crabs, people tend to think of the Chesapeake Bay — but the Chesapeake lags the Gulf of Mexico for sheer production. In the 2015 blue crab season, for instance, the total catch ...

Abandoned “ghost traps” scattered in South Florida’s coastal waters keep doing their lethal work, sometimes for years, ensnaring and often killing lobsters, stone crabs and other marine life. Crews of ...

Bridget McNabb in Sandbridge was “so amused” by a praying mantis just hanging out on an old oil storage tank staring at her that she took a photo of it. And Ann Matteson snapped a photo of a ghost ...