News & Press

Mote study: Can filter-feeding marine life reduce red tide impacts?

June 25, 2018 mote

Mote Marine Laboratory scientists are launching a research project this week that will test whether filter-feeding animals and seaweeds can help mitigate the effects of Florida red tide, an algal bloom caused by the naturally occurring microscopic organism Karenia brevis.

Mote scientists tag two whale sharks off southwest Florida

June 20, 2018 mote

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 and tagged two of them with tracking devices on the afternoon of June 14.

July 6-8: Hunt and taste invasive fish at Sarasota Lionfish Derby

June 19, 2018 mote

Join Mote Marine Laboratory for the fifth annual Sarasota Lionfish Derby, an environmentally friendly event that invites scuba divers to harvest this invasive species, and allows the public to taste delicious lionfish dishes prepared by top local chefs. The derby will take place from July 6-8 based at Mote, 1600 Ken Thompson Parkway in Sarasota.

Summer gets clammy: Shellfish restoration study under way

June 13, 2018 Hayley Rutger

Conservationists are ramping up clam-restoration efforts now in Sarasota Bay, Florida — locally the first of their kind — in partnership with Mote Marine Laboratory scientists who study how to fine-tune shellfish restoration methods to benefit the Bay. (End-of-year updates added December 2018.)

Sarasota Bay Fisheries Forum Presents ‘An Overview of Coastal Ecosystem Restoration for Tampa Bay’

June 5, 2018 mote

The Sarasota Bay Fisheries Forum — a group of community members, scientists and other fish enthusiasts who are interested in proactively addressing fisheries management issues in the Sarasota Bay area — will hold its monthly meeting on June 7 at Mote Marine Laboratory.

Coral disease ‘firebreak’ works in short term. Next goal: Making it last

May 16, 2018 Hayley Rutger

The progression of Caribbean yellow-band disease — a widespread killer of reef-building corals — can be significantly impeded by chiseling a “firebreak” around the diseased coral tissue, but more research is needed to maintain the firebreak long-term, reports a peer-reviewed research paper published this week in the journal PeerJ.

End-of-year news release: SEA you in 2018!

December 20, 2017 Hayley Rutger

Mote's end-of-year press release shares stories from each month of 2017, with many exciting updates. Happy holidays!

Stormwater system can support snook, bass and more, says Sarasota study

December 13, 2017 Hayley Rutger

Dozens of fish species — including common snook and largemouth bass — use certain parts of the upper Phillippi Creek system, according to the first fish survey of this urbanized network of canals, retention ponds and wetlands in Sarasota County, Florida. The survey — led by Mote Marine Laboratory and funded by Sarasota Bay Estuary Program (SBEP) — found the highest numbers and diversity of fishes around upper creek areas mimicking natural habitat: curving canals or ponds with wetland vegetation and sections of slower-moving water. Less naturalistic canals, with shorelines straightened for optimum drainage, generally hosted fewer fish of fewer species.

Mote Lab earns first LEED Gold Commercial certification in Monroe County

November 30, 2017 Hayley Rutger

Mote Marine Laboratory’s coral reef research facility in the Florida Keys has become the first U.S. Green Building Council LEED Gold Commercial certified building in Monroe County, honoring its outstanding, eco-friendly design and construction.

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