At Port Manatee, water temperatures bottomed out at 44.6 degrees. That’s just about as cold as the bay will get, one ...

After an extended period of cold temperatures, the Gulf of Mexico and Tampa Bay waters ... cooling helped fish get to warmer areas which are usually springs, rivers and deeper water where they ...

Angler Angel Cruz frequents the Skyway Fishing Pier causeways almost on a daily basis. He has discovered a few casts in the water could always ... is rarely seen in Tampa Bay waters.

Local health departments advised people to stay away from more than a dozen beaches in Southwest Florida. Respiratory ...

Now, Ries wants to restore another hidden spring along Bayshore Boulevard in Tampa. The spring is in Fred Ball Park, named ...

A manatee is recovering at ZooTampa after he was rescued from cold waters near the University of South Florida's St. Petersburg campus on Wednesday.

Manatees are classified as threatened, though many environmentalists wish they would return to their former status of endangered. Fish and Wildlife reported 565 manatees dead in 2024. Three years ...

For nearly half a century, there’s been little thought about the name Congress gave to the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management ...

It’s more like hunting.” When he and Will headed west of Tampa Bay after New Year’s, their original goal was to get to deeper water to fish for red grouper, but sporty seas and a seasick ...

A swath of red tide stretching for more than 200 miles has formed from Tampa Bay to Key West and the bloom started near Tampa ...

Times examines solutions identified by residents and scientists to restore the polluted ecosystem of Baffin Bay.