Save the trust funds. If you care about the environment, fight back, contact state legislators. ... [+] Read More

Within a few minutes of meeting Bruce French at a Florida Sportsman Fishing Show, he had pulled out a pad and started sketching a design of his idea for subsurface inlets. Frankly, I wasn't sure what to think. Surely this was a screwball idea-drill a 4-foot diameter pipe beneath a barrier island so you can pump sea water directly into an estuary. But the more we talked, the more it made sense. And unless some miracle of stormwater management occurs in Florida over the next few years, his idea may turn out to be our best hope for restoring and maintaining some of Florida's most threatened estuaries. ... [+] Read More

Commentary by Earthjustice attorney David Guest. ... [+] Read More

Here’s a vivid first-had account of swordfish longlining—and the toll it takes on billfishes. ... [+] Read More

Floridians are familiar with the staggering sight of cruise liners near port, so huge they eclipse the sky on their passage to and from exotic, distant places. But it's likely that few of us know the equally staggering amounts of waste those ships generate. ... [+] Read More

(February 2009) This new Reserve could transform the immense property (the size of many state parks combined) into a natural wonderland, while at the same time provide vitally needed basic benefits of the Missing Link flowway. ... [+] Read More

(January 2009) Dang, I sat down to write a blue skies and happiness column, and along comes a fancy, expensive new study called “Oceans of Abundance.” There went my attempted good humor. ... [+] Read More

(December 2008) It may seem too good to be true, and I realize that such seems often turn out to be just that, not true, but a new Presidential executive order may well stop more No Fishing Zones from being imposed. ... [+] Read More

(November 2008) Don’t plan on taking home a single east coast grouper on New Year’s Day. For the first time, grouper fishing will be banned on Atlantic waters, for at least four months starting Jan. 1. ... [+] Read More

(October 2008) As the broken federal fisheries machine bumbles ever onward, anglers can prepare to hand over more than 65 percent of all Gulf grouper to a small number of commercial interests. Permanently. ... [+] Read More

(September 2008) There are dark clouds of closure hanging over Florida fishermen, although we can look at some rays of sunshine as well. ... [+] Read More

(August 2008) 1. Governor Charlie Crist announced out of the blue that the state has quietly cut a deal to buy roughly half of Big Sugar. 2. Also stunning, but in a very negative way, are plans by federal fisheries managers to impose ill-advised closures on red snapper and grouper. ... [+] Read More

(July 2008) New red snapper and grouper regulations are causing who knows how many hundreds of millions of dollars of damages in communities ringing the Gulf of Mexico. ... [+] Read More

(June 2008) Didn't we get rid of those nasty things? We did. But, as we warn in a conservation segment on our Florida Sportsman TV show, there's a stealthy move afoot to bring back the deadly entangling gear. ... [+] Read More