RIVERVIEW, Fla. - Another night of unseasonably cold temperatures across the Tampa Bay area is threatening thousands of tropical fish. Fish farmers say the prolonged chill could lead to losses that ...

GIBSONTON — Out of south Hillsborough County, buckets filled with tropical fish of all colors moved along a conveyor belt. Segrest Farm workers scooped the fish into plastic bags filled with sedatives ...

LAKELAND, Fla. — Frosted oranges, strawberries encased in ice: The images of Florida’s freezes are familiar, sad and earthy. But just past the crop rows here in the state’s agricultural core, there ...

Brittany Hollon has farmed tropical fish on her family’s farm in north Lakeland since she was 13. The Urban Tropical Inc. farm sold about 1.94 million fish last year — mostly varieties of angel fish — ...

LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) – It’s a tense time at Imperial Tropicals, one of central Florida’s largest ornamental fish farms. It will be days, if not weeks, before farmer Fran Drawdy discovers how the recent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It may be autumn in New England, but for Tim Silva and Danielle Orcutt the season has been decidedly tropical, and they've only ...

For decades, Florida has led the U.S. in farming tropical fish. Now it faces pressure from development and competition from other countries. Bernadette Berdychowski is a reporter covering local ...