HOMOSASSA, Fla. (AP) - The cavalcade of tourists rolled in for hours. Their beers iced and children lotioned, they drove through archways of mossy oaks and beneath an aging water tower that in faded ...

Citrus County, nestled on the southern end of Florida's Nature Coast, shows the state is more than amusement parks and white-sand beaches. From early July through late September, the area comes alive ...

HOMOSASSA — Seven years after the near collapse of the area’s scallop population, the shellfish are abundant again. Their rebirth has been so great that state fisheries managers are holding a workshop ...

HOMOSASSA, Fla. (WFLA) — A man was hit by a boat propeller while he was diving for scallops last week, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said. The FWC said the incident happened ...

HOMOSASSA | The cavalcade of tourists rolled in for hours. Their beers iced and children lotioned, they drove through archways of mossy oaks and beneath an aging water tower that in faded letters ...

For the first time in eight years, people will be snorkeling for scallops off Homosassa again. Scallop populations from Homosassa to the Suwannee River have increased so dramatically that state ...

Early on a bright and sunny Saturday morning, my family set out for the Gulf of Mexico in search of the Florida Bay scallop. There were six in our hunting party; four were novice scallopers. We were ...

Kaley Taylor holds up a scallop she found in Homosassa Bay on Saturday, July 14, 2018. (Cassie Armstrong/Orlando Sentinel/TNS) Scallopers enter the water in Homosassa Bay on Saturday, July 14, 2018.