Green and gold flashes dart under and behind the boat. On deck, anglers scramble to man rods as line peels noisily from reels. Captain and crew shout instructions amid the excited chaos. This is the ...

May is traditionally the best time of the year to catch big dolphin in South Florida, and anglers don’t need to travel far offshore to find them. “The main thing is don’t overshoot the fish,” says ...

A vast, productive portion of the Pacific Ocean abounds off the coast of Panama. Known as the eastern tropical Pacific, nutrient-rich currents there associated with the northern flank of the Humboldt ...

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...

For a wide variety of reasons, Northeast Florida is not known as a hot spot for catching dolphin – as in dolphin fish, or mahi-mahi (Hawaiian name) – not the Flipper version of the mammal.

Dolphins in Florida have a special way of hunting: They stir up ring-shaped plumes of mud with their tails and corral fish into an ever-tightening circle. The frightened fish then jump out of the ...

Q: While on vacation in Mexico, I overheard someone say dorado and mahi-mahi are the same fish. Can that be right? A. Depending on where you live, or cast your line, the same fish can indeed have ...

For small fish in a sea teeming with much larger predators, life can be fleeting, and survival, on a given day, might depend on swiftness and wits. The accompanying aerial footage, captured over ...