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Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium’s Stranding Investigation Program responds to calls of “stranded” (i.e., injured or deceased) sea turtles, manatees, dolphins and whales in Sarasota and Manatee county areas. We are experiencing significantly greater strandings of sea turtles and manatees in...
This week, Mote and FWC rescued two manatees from Sarasota, and both animals were taken to ZooTampa for rehab It was a busy week for the rescue and rehab teams from three southwest Florida organizations as they came together to rescue not just one—but two—cold stressed manatees from Sarasota-area...
Connor, an adult male loggerhead sea turtle, returned to the Gulf of Mexico after several months of recovery at Mote's Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Hospital, but not before he received some very special "jewelry" for his journey—a satellite tag that will allow Mote scientists to continue to track Connor's...
(Mote Marine Laboratory is pleased to share this article provided by NOAA Fisheries on March 12, 2019.) A dolphin calf is swimming freely again with its mother after being rescued yesterday by biologists. The young dolphin was reported over the past few weeks in Lemon Bay, near Englewood, Florida,...
On Jan. 28, 2019, Mote Marine Laboratory staff released Salem, a bottlenose dolphin that had been in our care since she stranded on Oct. 31, 2018. Read about her release here. Check out this video about Salem's journey: Dr. Randall Wells, Director of Chicago Zoological Society's Sarasota...
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...
This month, NOAA Fisheries announced that they have awarded nearly $3 million in grants to organizations that rescue, rehabilitate, recover and support conservation of marine mammals such as dolphins and whales. Through the 2016 cycle of the John H. Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance Grant Program,...
A large, adult male sea turtle who was hit by a boat, missing part of his flipper and unable to dive well was rescued Sunday, June 28, in Lyons Bay in Nokomis by members of the Venice Police Marine Patrol, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) and the Sarasota Police Department,...
The animal rescue and recovery team at Mote Marine Laboratory recently received $12,104 from the Sea Turtle Grants Program to purchase a new boat that will enhance Mote’s response to distressed sea turtles, dolphins and whales and enable new research about the threats they face. The funds helped...