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Stone crab season coincides with a toxic bloom of red tide that has affected every Florida coast this year. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has dedicated a part of their website ...

An unusually long toxic algae bloom, also known as the red tide, is likely to blame for a shortage of stone crabs (a popular delicacy during the holiday season) in Florida this year. Specifically, ...

PINE ISLAND, Fla. –– Florida’s months-long battle over red tide is hurting an industry critical to the region: stone crabs. The state responsible for about 98 percent of the stone crabs hitting plates ...

Wade Papenfus searches tide pools at low tide with Milan, who carries a hand spear. He finds a mud crab on the coastal flats ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – Horseshoe crabs are dying in the Tampa Bay area due to the red tide bloom, and it’s becoming increasingly known of the animals’ impact in the medical field due to studies on ...

Researchers observe blue crabs ambushing fiddler crabs from shallow, water-filled pits, like crocodiles ambushing wildebeests in Africa. Dr. David Johnson, an ecologist at William & Mary's Virginia ...

A strange kind of “art show” appears with every low tide across the sandy shores of the Indo-Pacific and Australia — only to vanish just a few hours later. The artists? Sand bubbler crabs. Less than ...