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 ...

Federal regulators have tentatively approved what would be the first large-scale fish farm in the Gulf, offshore from Sarasota County. Opposition is coming from people who say the project could be ...

Some see the Gulf of Mexico as a prime location for floating fish farms, with the Trump administration eager to scale up ...

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 ...

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. Floating cages with fish by the thousands may be popping in the Gulf of Mexico under a controversial plan that was backed by President ...

A modified wastewater discharge permit will require owner Ocean Era to monitor and control nutrient wastes from an aquaculture operation for red drum. A planned fish farm off Florida’s Gulf Coast has ...

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 ...

SARASOTA COUNTY (WFLA) — For the last seven years, Hawaii-based Ocean Era has been working to bring a fish farm demonstration to Florida’s Gulf Coast. Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency ...

Mikola Kopanetskyi waded waist high in an outdoor water tank the size of an above-ground pool, slowly creeping up on the beluga sturgeon swimming in front of him. Once he sneaked close enough, ...

Play enough golf in Florida and you come to learn what a lot of it is like: flat, palm-fringed fairways, condos, cart paths, repeat. The stereotypes are stubborn for a reason. But they hold no sway at ...

Farms aim to keep beluga on the market despite a U.S. import ban. But scientists say that won’t save the species from going extinct in the wild by 2050 Mikola Kopanetskyi waded waist high in an ...