WE were bound out to the ‘dark water’ of the Mexico Bank in the little thirty-foot sponger Anna. We were after wool sponge, the golden fleece of the Gulf; and we were out for a two weeks’ catch.

The federal government has taken steps to protect Canada's rare glass sponge reefs off the B.C. coast — a move that will restrict commercial fishing in the area. Federal Fisheries Minister Dominic ...

In a spectacle repeated every Jan. 6 for more than a century, dozens of teenage boys set out from the stately Greek Orthodox cathedral in the Florida Gulf Coast town of Tarpon Springs to seek God's ...

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For many years, Tarpon Springs, just north of Clearwater, has billed itself as the sponge capital of the world and the place to visit Greece without leaving Florida. Ethnic and cultural pride fills ...

TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) – In a spectacle repeated every Jan. 6 for more than a century, dozens of teenage boys set out from the stately Greek Orthodox cathedral in this Florida Gulf Coast town to ...

Tarpon Springs lies on the Anclote River along Florida’s Gulf Coast about 30 miles northwest of Tampa. Known as the “Sponge Capital of the World,” this is an area where Greek immigrants settled during ...

Dodecanese Street announced the character of the Tarpon Springs waterfront at once, with a stucco structure plainly derived from memories of the Erechtheum. Caryatids were mercifully not attempted, ...

A recreational prawn fisherman has been fined $18,000 after pleading guilty to three fisheries charges, including fishing at the entrance to Howe Sound in an area banned to bottom fishing to protect ...

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TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. — In a spectacle repeated every Jan. 6 for more than a century, dozens of teenage boys set out from the stately Greek Orthodox cathedral in this Florida Gulf Coast town to seek ...