SEA Me Read: Swimming With Sharks, the Daring Discoveries of Eugenie Clark
Virtual story time with Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium: Swimming With Sharks, the Daring Discoveries of Eugenie Clark In the 1930s few people dared to explore the depths of the sea, and none were women. But Genie...
Breakfast with the Sharks
Rise and dive! Start your day with our sharks before the Aquarium opens to the public. You and your chums will have a great time sinking your teeth into a light continental breakfast while you learn about our favorite finned...
Global status and conservation potential of reef sharks
Decades of overexploitation have devastated shark populations, leaving considerable doubt as to their ecological status. Yet much of what is known about sharks has been inferred from catch records in industrial fisheries, whereas...
Global spatial risk assessment of sharks under the footprint of fisheries
Effective ocean management and the conservation of highly migratory species depend on resolving the overlap between animal movements and distributions, and fishing effort. However, this information is lacking at a global scale. Here...
Breakfast with the Sharks
Rise and dive! Start your day with our sharks before the Aquarium opens to the public. You and your chums will have a great time sinking your teeth into a light continental breakfast while you learn about our favorite finned...
Insights into the Relative Abundance, Life History, and Ecology of Oceanic Sharks in the Eastern Bahamas
Fisheries-independent data on the diversity, relative abundance, and demographic structure of poorly studied, threatened oceanic sharks are absent from much of the western North Atlantic Ocean, where multiple oceanic shark species...
Widespread diversity deficits of coral reef sharks and rays
A global survey of coral reefs reveals that overfishing is driving resident shark species toward extinction, causing diversity deficits in reef elasmobranch (shark and ray) assemblages. Our species-level analysis revealed global declines...
Sharks After Dark (Sarasota)
Join us for Mote’s newest family night of fins and fun! It will be a jaw-some time as our professional educators and shark enthusiasts explore the question “What do sharks, stingrays and other marine creatures do when the sun goes...
Breakfast with the Sharks (Sarasota)
Rise and dive! Start your day with our sharks before the Aquarium opens to the public. You and your chums will have a great time sinking your teeth into a light continental breakfast while you learn about our favorite finned...
Sharks & Rays Conservation Research
The Sharks & Rays Conservation Research Program is dedicated to studying the biology, ecology and conservation of sharks and their relatives, the skates and rays. These fishes comprise about 1,000 species...
Next phase of Global FinPrint seeks to improve protection of reef sharks worldwide
With reef shark populations in crisis, Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium and partners from across the globe are updating the seminal shark survey, Global FinPrint, and applying their findings to the design of new marine protected...
Global study finds reef sharks now at a higher risk of extinction
Overfishing is driving reef sharks toward extinction, according to new study published today in the peer-reviewed journal, Science. The five main shark...
Achieving fin-tastic firsts with sharks, rays, fisheries – 2020 Annual Report
This story is a highlight from Mote's 2020 Annual Report. SUSTAINING FISHERIES—GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT ON MOTE In November 2019, Mote...
Social distancing may be new for humans, not so much for whale sharks
In 2007 scientists from Mote Marine Laboratory and Ch’ooj Ajauil AC placed a location-tracking tag on a whale shark nicknamed "Rio Lady" and documented her epic migration spanning close to 5,000 miles. Now, Rio Lady is back in the...
Mote receives federal grant to study highly migratory sharks as part of new consortium
Sarasota, Fla. — October 2, 2019 — Mote Marine Laboratory is bringing its long history of shark expertise to a new consortium studying highly migratory species, thanks to new funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...
Global threat to sharks highlighted in Nature paper co-authored by Mote scientists
A new study in the prestigious, peer-reviewed, scientific journal Nature reveals that major high seas fishing activities overlap significantly with important shark hotspots worldwide. Study partners point out that North...
Mote scientists tag two whale sharks off southwest Florida
Written by Stephanie Hagan Thanks to whale shark sightings reported by the public off the southwest Florida coast in early June, scientists from Mote Marine Laboratory located five of the polka-dotted, filter-feeding giants...
Great white sharks off Nantucket in the scientific spotlight
OCEARCH EXPEDITION WITH FLORIDA SCIENTIFIC LEADER AIMS TO BUILD UPON SERIES OF SHARK-TAGGING SUCCESSES Today OCEARCH and its collaborating scientists launched a three-week expedition to tag mature great white sharks off Nantucket,...
Do sharks survive after the hook? New technology helping solve fisheries mystery
Fitbit-like sensors are the best tools for monitoring whether sharks survive catch-and-release fishing — essential data for fisheries management — according to a peer-reviewed study published today, June 23, by scientists from...
Earth Day Webcast: “Sharks Alive!” with Mote
Kids around the world can watch “Sharks Alive!” – a free webcast by Mote Marine Laboratory via Google Hangouts and Youtube from 10 – 10:25 a.m. EST on Earth Day, April 22. “Sharks Alive!” will focus on shark research...
Horn shark
Horn sharks are brown in color with evenly spaced medium-sized, black dots. They get their name from the two horns protruding from their head above their green eyes.