State officials want anglers properly licensed for opening of red snapper and lane grouper season which starts Wednesday.

Florida anglers can look forward to the start of the recreational harvest season for red grouper and lane snapper in Gulf ...

Each study will test a snapper-grouper bag limit to reduce discards, improve reporting of catch-and-discard information, and ...

Red tide continues to plague Florida's Gulf Coast, with high concentrations of the harmful algae Karenia brevis detected in ...

and cubera), grouper (gag, Nassau, Goliath), tarpon, permit, cobia, and a bouquet of tropicals like doctorfish, parrotfish and puddingwife wrasse. When deciding where to fish in Florida on a ...

Captain Ben Chancey fought with a 412 pound grouper off the coast of Florida for 20 minutes until the gargantuan fish finally surrendered. Chancey was riding a paddleboard and was knocked off ...

The goliath grouper is a giant fish that can be found in Florida waters. In the '70s and '80s, it was severely overfished, which led to regulations making it illegal to harvest. Following is a ...

With 2024 behind us, let’s look ahead to a new year of fishing and with luck, no hurricanes. January is generally our coolest ...

This story appears in the July 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. Off the coast of southwest Florida, a hundred feet below the water’s surface, a whump rolls through the sea. Another ...

as Florida Sportsman reported in 2022, it acts as “a vital nursery for an estimated 70% of the fish that anglers catch, including species such as spotted seatrout, grouper and tarpon.” ...