Florida’s most popular freshwater game fish has a new name. What was known among anglers as the “Florida strain” largemouth bass, commonly found in bodies of water across Florida, is now considered a ...

Florida's most popular freshwater game fish has a new name. The largemouth bass, commonly found in Florida's waterways, is now known as the Florida bass, according to a July 17 news release from the ...

Southwest Florida waters are home to some of the Amazon's most prized gamefish. If that sentence sounds a little strange, it should. Amazonian fish don't belong in our ponds, lakes and rivers, but ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has recognized the Florida bass as a unique species separate from the Largemouth bass and will incorporate the species name ...

Neil Sims has a vision. He imagines thousands of red drum fish swimming in the open Gulf, the Florida sun glinting off ...

Florida's Gulf Coast has become ground zero for fall hogfish fishing. These delicious oddballs aren't difficult to catch with ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service encourages eating some invasive species to help protect native wildlife. Although not illegal, eating Burmese pythons is not recommended due to high levels of ...

Photo Provided by Jonathan Mays, FWC - Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, for WMNF News. Florida ranks seventh among U.S. states in biodiversity, with over 4500 different animal species and ...

On Tuesday, Florida’s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission announced that 195 Burmese pythons had been removed from South Florida as part of this year’s annual python challenge. In all, 857 ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is proposing a change to the Endangered Species Act that environmental groups say will kneecap habitat protection and lead to extinction of vulnerable species.