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End-of-year updates (December 2018) Updates on each tracked shark are below, followed by the original story about Expedition Nova Scotia. Track all satellite-tagged sharks at ocearch.org. “Nova,” an adult male named for Nova Scotia and measuring just over 11 feet long, was tagged Sept. 24....
Four great white sharks have been caught, sampled and released — three with location-tracking tags — so far during OCEARCH’s Expedition Nova Scotia, which is in progress with guidance from on-board Expedition Chief Scientist Dr. Bob Hueter, Senior Scientist at Mote Marine Laboratory and Chief...
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), Florida Department of Health (DOH) and Mote Marine Laboratory (Mote) gathered on Monday, Sept. 24, for the State of Florida’s press announcement of a new partnership initiative to address...
Mote Marine Laboratory is pleased to welcome Dr. Riyad Manasrah, recipient of a prestigious Fulbright Visiting Scholar Award from the Middle Eastern nation of Jordan. Manasrah will investigate the physical and chemical dynamics of coastal ocean lagoons in the northern Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea, to determine...
Mote Marine Laboratory scientists are monitoring the new “living seawall” installed by the City of Sarasota last week along 262 feet of Sarasota’s Bayfront Park with the goal of attracting more marine life to benefit Sarasota Bay. The living seawall is a series of naturalistic concrete, rock...
Researchers highlight the need to increase genetic diversity among staghorn corals to prevent further loss in the Florida Reef Tract, U.S. --- Bleaching events caused by rising water temperatures could increase mortality among a coral species already threatened by disease, says new research by Mote...
Since July 2018, elevated numbers of bottlenose dolphins have died along Collier, Lee, Charlotte, Sarasota, Manatee, Hillsborough and Pinellas counties in southwest Florida. On Aug. 30, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared this an unusual mortality event (UME), likely related...
End-of-year updates (December 2018) Amid this year's announcement of a snook restocking initiative (original story below), Mote’s Fisheries Ecology & Enhancement Program also continued its own snook studies that could help inform snook-release efforts expected to ramp up in 2019. This year,...
Florida International University and Mote Marine Laboratory are developing new and more efficient ways to treat manatees exposed to toxic red tide. Through a $428,000 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s ECOHAB program, FIU and Mote are launching a three-year project...
End-of-year update (December 2018) Preliminary results: Snook rapid assessment during 2018 red tide along Boca Grande When spawning snook perish from Florida red tide, other adult snook may re-occupy their spawning sites rapidly after conditions improve, according to Mote Marine Laboratory’s August...