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Portions of this press release are derived from Sarasota County. Sarasota County received a $14.5M grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Transformational Habitat Restoration and Coastal Resilience Program for the Alligator Creek Stream Restoration Project, which...
It's Coral Reef Awareness Week! Check out the newest coral research from Mote scientists who show you can take the coral out of the reef, but you can’t take the reef out of the coral. As highlighted in new peer-reviewed research from Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium scientists, "Geographically...
A Mote Aquarium biologist recently took her crocodilian-care skills to Argentina, assisting with a conservation and research project that is helping the broad-snouted caiman recover from environmental threats. The broad-snouted caiman (Caiman latirostris) belongs to the scientific order Crocodilia,...
End-of-year updates (December 2018) Amid this year's announcement of a snook restocking initiative (original story below), Mote’s Fisheries Ecology & Enhancement Program also continued its own snook studies that could help inform snook-release efforts expected to ramp up in 2019. This year,...
The annual Scallop Search led by the nonprofit Sarasota Bay Watch tallied 40 scallops on Saturday, Aug. 23, surpassing the count of 11 from last year. The event drew more than 130 volunteers, strengthening the local community’s commitment to monitor and restore scallop populations in Sarasota Bay. The...