Name: Animal Encounters: Aquarium Morning Rounds
Start: 2025-05-30T08:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-05-30T10:00:00-04:00
Location: Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium

Dr. Brennan in a baseball cap and a 5th grade boy from Abel Elementary hold a foot long catfish the student caught at Mote's 10th annual Teach-A-Kid Fishing & Ecology Clinic.

Mote News, Education

Mote brings joy of sustainable fishing to over 80 fifth graders

December 03, 2018 | Stephannie Kettle

Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium hosted one of their popular Teach-A-Kid Fishing & Ecology Clinics in November at Mote Aquaculture Research Park in Sarasota County, delighting and educating 88 fifth grade students from Florine J. Abel Elementary. Students learned the basics of fishing and...

Mote staff member stands under a large oak tree, it's branches draped with Spanish moss. He poses a question to a group of elementary school students seated around him, while holding a toy stuffed shark in his right hand and a toy stuffed fish in his right for emphasis. A boy in a backwards baseball cap raises his hand.

Mote News, Education

Kids enjoy Florida’s fisheries while helping to sustain them at Mote’s Teach-A-Kid Fishing clinic

November 17, 2016 | Kaitlyn Fusco

On Thursday, Nov. 10, Mote Marine Laboratory hosted a Teach-a-Kid Fishing & Ecology Clinic for James Tillman Elementary School students to discover the fun of sustainable fishing — not to mention why fish are so slippery, how to do the fishy art of Gyotaku and how young anglers can make a “reel”...