Florida native Neill Holland became a charter captain at age 18. In 2015, after traveling internationally for a decade, he returned to St. Petersburg, Florida, to resume his fishing charter operation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Abandoned “ghost traps” scattered in South Florida’s coastal waters keep doing their lethal work, sometimes for years, ensnaring ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BOSTON — Abandoned fishing gear has posed problems for authorities wishing to clear it from state waters and shorelines for ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Derelict ghost traps are putting sea creatures in danger. These are fishing traps for lobsters and crab that are abandoned. A dolphin in Clearwater was trapped and injured in a ...

CLEARWATER, Fla. — A baby dolphin was rescued on Wednesday under Pier 60 in Clearwater after getting tangled in the remnants of a crab trap. After an unsuccessful attempt to reunite the calf with its ...

In Maine, where lobstermen actively fish more than 2 million traps, it's estimated that 5 to 10 percent 100,000 to 200,000 are lost in any given year. In a decade, that could be 1 or 2 million lost ...

Abandoned “ghost traps” scattered in South Florida’s coastal waters keep doing their lethal work, sometimes for years, ensnaring and often killing lobsters, stone crabs and other marine life. Crews of ...

PORTLAND, Maine -- Beneath the cold ocean waters off the coast of Maine, the nation's lobster breadbasket, lie hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of old wire lobster "ghost traps." Lost over the ...