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The Trump administration moves to expand offshore oil leases, which could make the sight of oil drilling platforms more common on every coast.
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Florida stone crab. Florida Sea Grant photo.
Florida stone crab. Florida Sea Grant photo.

“It was the best of times; it was the worst of times” pretty much sums up Florida’s 2018-19 stone crab harvest season.

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Hurricane Dorian's Sept. 6 landfall flooded Ocracoke Island, N.C. Coast Guard video image/ PO1 Stephen Lehmann.
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In the water, naval architect Tom Farrell “inclined” the Starlight and wrote a new stability booklet for the now more stable vessel.
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Dorian's hit comes almost exactly one year after Hurricane Florence came ashore near Wilmington, N.C., close to the South Carolina border.
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White shrimp from the Gulf of Mexico. A new Louisiana state law requires restaurants to disclose to customers when they serve imported foreign shrimp and crawfish. MSU Ag Communications photo/Kat Lawrence
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Mississippi beach closures
Officials in Mississippi have closed all 21 of the state's public beaches as a result of toxic bacterial blooms.
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