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On Friday, Dec. 11 the Longboat Key Turtle Watch donated $8,002 to help advance Mote Marine Laboratory’s education and sea turtle programs. The funds will be distributed among the Lab’s Hatchling Hospital, Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Hospital, Sea Turtle Conservation and Research Program and Education...
In honor of #GivingTuesday — today, Dec. 1 — Mote Marine Lab is excited to share some of the ways we give back to the sea, along with ideas for how the public can help throughout this season of giving. Giving Tuesday started in 2012 through a partnership between the United Nations Foundation...
Students from Sarasota High School visited Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium Tuesday, Dec. 1, to deliver freshly grown lettuce from their school garden to feed Mote’s resident manatees as part of a new, pilot, community-based school program. Manatees are massive, slow moving aquatic herbivores...
Mote Marine Laboratory scientists invited kids to discover the fun of sustainable fishing and learn how anglers can make a “reel” difference for marine environments at this year’s Snook Shindig Teach-A-Kid Fishing Clinic Saturday, Nov. 7. During the Fishing Clinic, 130 kids ages 5 to 16 learned...
Buoys and ghouls of all ages dressed up in costume for a Night of Fish, Fun & Fright from 5:30 to 8 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 23, at Mote Aquarium. The Aquarium was decorated with jack-o-lanterns, mummies and all things Halloween. Visitors sailed the spooky seas and discovered creatures from the...
A bottlenose dolphin calf estimated to be about 6-months-old is now safely swimming with her mom after rescuers freed her from life-threatening plastic debris and fishing lines caught around her body. The rescue took place Thursday morning, Oct. 15, off the west coast of Florida, near Clearwater. The...
Please note: The shark-research expedition aboard the M/V OCEARCH that was scheduled to launch this month in the Gulf of Mexico with a Mote Marine Laboratory scientist on board has been postponed because of bad weather. We will provide more information when the expedition resumes in early November. A...
In October 2015, the Sarasota Dolphin Research Program (SDRP) is celebrating its 45th anniversary as the world’s longest-running study of a wild dolphin population. SDRP is operated by the Chicago Zoological Society (CZS) and based at Mote Marine Lab, where it started in 1970. SDRP leads pioneering...
With dwindling supplies of seafood for Earth’s growing population, fisheries enhancement and aquaculture (fish farming) research are needed more than ever, said Chinese scientists from the Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute (YSFRI) who visited Mote Marine Laboratory on Thursday and Friday to exchange...
Mote Marine Laboratory scientists are excited to share the encouraging, preliminary results of their annual count of Southwest Florida sea turtle nests. During the 2015 nesting season that began May 1, Mote-monitored beaches from Longboat Key through Venice have hosted a record number of green sea...