To most people, the small fragment of rotted netting doesn't look like much. It's black, twisty, frayed — only a few inches across. Most visitors to the Florida Museum of Natural History in ...

Fishing nets have been a fixture of our coastal heritage from when Native American’s lived along the Florida’s coast, to the Commercial Fishing Village of Cortez. The Folk School at Florida Maritime ...

Fishing powered the mighty Calusa, who ruled South Florida for centuries. Now, a new study shows how sophisticatedly engineered 'watercourts' served as holding pens for live fish, sustaining Calusa ...

Matlacha, pronounced “mat-la-shay,” is that colorful little island village on Pine Island Road between Cape Coral and Pine Island. It actually has an intriguing history. 1. First, Matlacha is entirely ...

Mound Key (center) in Estero Bay was the capital of the Native Calusa people when the Spanish arrived in the sixteenth century.(Merald Clark) In 1895, Frank Hamilton Cushing, a pioneering ...

In February 1566, Caalus sat on his throne and watched a procession of strange men march toward his house. The Spanish admiral Pedro Menéndez de Aviles had assembled 200 soldiers, drummers, trumpeters ...