Mote will build a new Aquarium on mainland Sarasota County next to University Town Center on 5 acres of county-owned land within Nathan Benderson Park.

The significant decline in annual landings since 2000 is concerning for the fisheries future sustainability.

One solution to the lighting disorientations are sand dunes, which shield the lighting from the buildings.

The local dolphin community has had a record year for calves, according to the Sarasota Dolphin Research Program (SDRP), a Chicago Zoological Society (CZS) program in collaboration with Mote Marine Laboratory. During the 2017 calving season, 19 calves have been documented by SDRP, the world’s longest-running study of a wild dolphin population.  These 19 calves […]

An 81-inch-long, 158 pound male did not rejoin the rest of the group despite an attempt by responders to send it back.

Mote scientists are documenting which nests are present, re-posting marking stakes if they have been washed away and collecting data about the current status of nests, while continuing their regular monitoring of new nests and hatches.

Mote Marine Laboratory’s Board of Trustees elected Lido Shores resident Robert A. Essner as Chairman of the Board.

The filmmakers focus on coral bleaching and death caused by increased water temperatures, which are driven in large part by human activities adding carbon dioxide to Earth’s atmosphere.

‘The same stuff is left out weekly and it is obvious that the law is not being enforced.’

‘This saddens and angers me that people are uneducated and/or don’t care about our marine life.’