FAIRHOPE, Ala. (WALA) - Mobile Bay waters will be just a little bit cleaner thanks to the placement of 60 Mini Reefs along Alabama shorelines Tuesday, December 5, 2023. The city of Fairhope purchased ...

VENICE – Former Venice mayor John Holic, currently commodore of the Venice Yacht Club, asked the City Council to give $5,000 to Sarasota Bay Watch, to support Roberts Bay Artificial Reef Project No. 1 ...

POINT CLEAR, Ala. (WKRG) — A Mobile Boy Scout’s Eagle Project to help grow marine habitat has two new partners, and growing ambitions. The University of South Alabama Stokes School of Marine and ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Many people consider fishing one of their favorite activities along the Gulf Coast, but it can be frustrating when you don’t catch something. A local soon-to-be Eagle Scout wants ...

MARATHON, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis announced additional money for artificial reef recovery and an extra day for the mini-season for spiny lobsters exclusively for Florida residents. At a press ...

FAIRHOPE, Ala. (WALA) - Eagle Scout, John Shell of Mobile set out a year ago to do something that would make a difference for those who fish and play along coastal Alabama’s waterways. Since then, he ...

When people hear about underwater reefs, they usually picture colorful gardens created from coral. But some reefs are anchored to much more unusual foundations. For more than a century, people have ...

John Shell fondly recalls going out on the boat with his dad, reeling in fish from Mobile Bay when he was a child. On a Boy Scout camping trip about five years ago, he noticed something was different ...

Many anglers are familiar with the massive artificial reefs off our coast, some spreading for hundreds of yards across the ocean floor. But any experienced fisherman will tell you that any object, be ...

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Mauricio Maldonado is a digital editor for CBS Miami and has been a digital journalist in the South Florida area since 1997. Mauricio started at the Miami Herald in 1990 and transitioned over to their ...