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Stocking Up for the Future Due to fishing and coastal development pressures, populations of prized game species such as snook are dwindling. Mote's Center for Fisheries Enhancement is focused on the scientific study of restocking efforts. |
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Tracking Sea Turtles Mote has studied and tagged nesting sea turtles for decades. But it's been only recently that new technology has started helping answer the question: "Where do sea turtles go once they return to the ocean?" |
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Turning Fish Into Gold: Aquatic Alchemy Starting life as a tiny, slimy bubble of an egg, a mature female Siberian sturgeon can produce $2,000 worth of caviar in one shot. The eggs are prized enough that the world's stock of these wild fish are at unprecedented levels of depletion. Mote Aquaculture Park is finding new ways to raise these fish and take the pressure off. |
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Under Pressure Exploring the deepest coral reef in the continental U.S. off Key West required extreme training and Mote Marine Laboratory had just the team of technically trained divers to do it. |
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Looking Beyond the Pretty Picture Underwater, Carmen Powers watches as spike-backed, mottled hogfish wait patiently to be picked clean by tiny neon gobies. Pastel, bristle-topped Christmas tree worms spend time on their favorite coral tops, and fish dart in and out of coral nooks, their colors layered together like a waving patchwork quilt. |
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Mote Marine Laboratory has been a leader in marine research since it was founded in 1955. Today, we incorporate public outreach as a key part of our mission. Mote is an independent nonprofit organization and has seven centers for marine research, the public Mote Aquarium and an Education Division specializing in public programs for all ages.
