Most seafood fans are familiar with Maine lobster, but have you ever tried fish from the opposite side of the Atlantic?

Maine lobster gets all the hype, but pound-for-pound, West Coast spiny lobster have more sweet meat than its East Coast counterpoint. That’s why the annual arrival of spiny lobster season is cause for ...

The 48-hour mini-season for Florida's spiny lobster opens, and closes, this week. This annual, abbreviated, season for some of Florida's tastiest crustaceans happens every year on the last consecutive ...

Dozens of spiny water fleas are entangled on a fishing line. The animals, which are smaller than a fingernail and invasive in the Northeast, are often transported between water bodies on fishing ...

A Fish Called Avalon has been serving up some of the best seafood on South Beach for 20 years and counting. Now, to celebrate lobster season executive chef Brian Cantrell has come up with 4 new dishes ...

Venomous lionfish that are being found increasingly along the South Atlantic coast have become a painful reality for some divers from Florida to the Carolinas. Twice in the past month the U.S. Coast ...

Many fish species evolved parts of their fins into sharp, spiny, needle-like elements -- called fin spines -- that function to protect the fish against predators. Such spines have evolved ...

Spiny dogfish sharks (Squalus acanthias) are longtime residents of our coastal waters and, for many months of the year, one of the most available fish in the sea, and yet local anglers almost never ...

It's an unsettling image that seems more suited to a conversation about demonology than one about marine biology. An armor-studded fish skeleton, its empty eye sockets fixed upon observers with a ...

While fishing near a port in southern Italy, a young angler felt something tug on the line and reeled in an odd-looking catch. The sea creature turned out to be “rare” — and “toxic.” Kevin Bibiche ...