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Recently, Mote Marine Laboratory scientists released 7,500 healthy, juvenile, hatchery-reared snook into creeks in Southwest Florida, with the goal of replenishing snook populations that have been negatively affected by events such as cold stuns and Florida red tide. This is the largest number of snook...
Read Mote's update on the rescue below, and visit this link for a photo gallery by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. It was a very exciting day at Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium! The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), SeaWorld Orlando and Mote came together to release a...
During fall 2018, Florida red tide—a harmful bloom of Karenia brevis algae—intensified to a level that many marine animals could not survive. Of special concern was the impact on spawning female snook. If snook females full of eggs were dying, what would that mean for future generations? What did...
Mote Marine Laboratory announced the Florida Red Tide Mitigation and Technology Development Initiative’s first competitive grant opportunity for scientists working to fight red tide impacts on Nov. 7 during the 10th U.S. Symposium on Harmful Algae in Orange Beach, Alabama. The Initiative is a partnership...