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MADEIRA BEACH — Shoreline protection has traditionally been accomplished through what Jack Cox calls “brute force.” Miles-long steel breakwaters. Concrete barriers. The dredging of tons of sand or, in a Pinellas County ritual, depositing sand from the depths back onto the beach. Cox’s company, Edgewater Resources, is among a new group of coastal engineering experts thinking differently. “We started exploring the idea of a really fundamental question: What is a breakwater?” he told a group of beach city mayors at a recent meeting of the Barrier Islands Governmenta...

Fishing was one of the few sports where participation seemed to pick up when everything else went on pause due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Best friends, 1 with terminal cancer, fulfill ‘bucket wish’ of attending Super Bowl By Haley Hinds Haley Hinds reports. TAMPA, Fla. - For a pair of football fans who will be watching the Super Bowl at Raymond James Stadium, Sunday's game is a lot more important than which team wins or loses.  One of the fans has terminal cancer and this may be one of the last chances these friends have to see a game in-person. It turns out, it was an act of kindness from an NFL referee that's helping them enjoy this once-in-a-lifetime experience in Tampa. "It's unbelievable. I mean, the hardest tic...

Clearwater Marine Aquarium releases first rehabilitated turtle of 2021 By FOX 13 News Staff Published  The Clearwater Marine Aquarium successfully released its first sea turtle of 2021. CLEARWATER, Fla. - Movies have made Clearwater Marine Aquarium famous for the care shown to dolphins Winter and Hope, but CMA cares for all sorts of marine life including a sea turtle named Twizzler. She was found late last year floating near John's Pass. "(Twizzler) came to us in November with a buoyancy issue," shared Joni Westmoreland, a CMA sea turtle rehabilitation expert. "She was having issues diving."...

The John’s Pass Seafood and Music Festival, which has provided arts, crafts, music, beer and, of course, loads of local seafood to hundreds of thousands of partygoers since the 1980s,