By Fred Garth When we reflect on our lives, we’re fortunate if we connected with a visionary or two who impacted our trajectory. For me, my good friend Wayne Hasson, who passed away in February, was one of those deep thinkers who saw the future and helped me

By Louisa Sax In an era dominated by screen time, pixelated entertainment and virtual friends, finding a kid who genuinely prefers investigating snakes, exploring tide pools and learning new fly-fishing techniques is nostalgic — and somewhat rare. Eight-year-old Elena McDow is one of them.  Elena has grown up

A Life Dedicated to Sharks Growing up in Bavaria, Germany, Stefanie Brendl had no idea she’d spend most of her life around oceans and sharks. Of course, cavorting with sharks is a lot like hanging out with politicians, something Brendl has done extensively in her effort to protect

By GHM Staff | PHOTOS BY Shawn Heinrichs The shark fin business is massive in at least two ways. One, it’s a billion dollar global industry. Two, it’s responsible for the annihilation of more than 70 million sharks per year. All of this mass killing of sharks is,

By Sid Dobrin  The following article is a modified chapter from the book Fishing Gone? by hardcore angler, author and University of Florida English professor,Sid Dobrin. The book covers a broad range of entertaining and valuable subjects and should be on every recreational angler’s reading list. Like many

Can the world’s best-known shark help cure cancer? Story by and photos courtesy George C. Schellenger When I first arrived at Mexico’s Guadalupe Island in December of 2004, I was completely in awe. It was more impressive than I could ever have imagined.  Guadalupe is a massive, 22-mile-long

A Florida Original By Mark Ellert “It isn’t as it used to be in the old times. Then everybody traveled by steamboat …” wrote Mark Twain in his great American novel, Life on the Mississippi. And so it was for the Kissimmee River in Central Florida at the turn of

The floating debris that fish love Story by and photos courtesy Bill Boyce Waking to smooth eastern tropical Pacific seas, the 240-foot super seiner makes its initial 360-degree slow turn, scanning the horizon for birds and splashes before committing to a course to start the day’s search for

The critics have spoken: “5 out of 5 stars” — that’s what some of the youngsters from KIDS FIRST! are saying about Guy’s newest educational documentary Shark School with Jessica Harvey, now available on Amazon Prime Video. The Coalition for Quality Children’s Media reviewed the film in May,

Stream Guy with Amazon Prime If you find yourself at home tonight hungry for a great wildlife documentary, the Guy Harvey team is ready to serve up an expedition. You can even have a Guy Harvey version of Shark Week … if you know where to look. And