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 ...

Step aside, Florida man. We now have an official Florida bass. The largemouth bass in most of Florida, the state's most popular freshwater game fish, has officially been declared a separate species ...

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 ...

It looks like federal regulators are rebuffing an effort to get the Florida manatee back on the endangered species list. Several statewide environmental groups had petitioned the U.S. Fish and ...

Memorial Day weekend is here, and thousands of people are packing their bags for Florida’s beaches. But state wildlife ...