FAIRHOPE, Ala. — A customer is waiting as Patrick Gormandy steers his deep-water trawler — the Captain Sam B — back to the dock after a day of shrimping on Mobile Bay. Gormandy shovels plump shrimp ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The Alabama Port Authority sent a letter to Mobile Baykeeper, demanding the organization withdraw its intent to file a federal lawsuit over the Mobile Bay dredging project. Last ...

Florida environmental regulators say they are again postponing proposed protections to stop turbidity churned up by dredging and ship traffic from damaging reefs. In their first public meeting on the ...

Historically, dredging was an inexact science—essentially "digging blind" based on old charts. Today, however, the industry is undergoing a digital overhaul. Dredging has gone from digging mud to ...

A federal project to dredge a ship channel in Alabama's Mobile Bay is drawing local opposition because the dredge spoil is being disposed of in other parts of the estuary. (Blake Jones for NPR) ...

Dredging waterways for navigation is a centuries-old practice, but this project is controversial because the mud being dug out of the channel is... In Alabama, a dredging project in Mobile Bay brings ...