Over the past two months, the Sarasota Dolphin Research Program has documented three dolphins that have been struck by boats. Two of the dolphins were recently born calves. Mote’s Stranding Investigations Program has also recovered several large sea turtles that had been struck by boats. These incidents offer a strong reminder that we share our [...]

After 24 years of litigation, U.S. District Judge Alan Gold has given the okay to an $880 million plan to improve Everglades’s water quality. The federal approval came just over a week after the latest plan was submitted by the South Florida Water Management District, the lead state agency on Everglades’s restoration efforts. This key [...]

While people all over the world eat mullet, here it is seen as the saltwater equivalent of a bottom feeder like carp.  Ed Chiles, founding START Board member and owner of three local restaurants, has a plan to change that perception.  In an article for the Herald Tribune by Kate Spinner, Ed talked about how [...]

This May Riverview High School unveiled its AquaDome, a $250,000 aquaculture greenhouse that will be home to different types of marine life.  The school hopes that it will be an added attraction for elementary and middle school students who already visit the Planetarium on the campus. Students who visit the AquaDome can touch starfish, feed [...]