The Oculina Bank runs from Flagler Beach to Fort Pierce, is thousands of years old, and is found nowhere else in the world. Is it worth protecting?

Members of the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council voted Friday to approve two amendments allowing shrimp trawling on parts of the Oculina Bank off the coast of Fort Pierce.

Coral reefs have been declining in the past couple of decades with warming waters and an increase in pollution. They are ...

The Oculina Bank runs from Flagler Beach to Fort Pierce, is thousands of years old, and is found nowhere else in the world.

It's no secret that Florida's iconic coral reefs are in trouble. Repeated body blows from hurricanes, pollution, disease, ...