July 6 will be the last day the public can visit the Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium facility on City Island.

Mote Marine and the City of Anna Maria expect that a planned marine education center could open on the city pier, shown 3/1/2021, by March 2023, funded in part by $500,0000 in tourist bed taxes.

Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium is ranked #9 out of 13 things to do in Sarasota. ... including those found in the Ann and Alfred E. Goldstein Marine Mammal Research and Rehabilitation Center.

SARASOTA -- Mote Marine Laboratory will christen a donated Boca Grande-based research vessel hand-crafted by a master builder at 5 p.m. Thursday at the Innlet Docks, 1251 12th St. E.

Mote Marine is a Sarasota-based marine research nonprofit that operates an aquarium in Sarasota, as well as centers in Key West and Islamorada similar to the one proposed in Anna Maria.

Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium celebrated the official opening of its Florida Coral Reef Restoration Crab Hatchery Research Center Monday as the first fully operational Caribbean king crab ...

Mote Marine Laboratory recently entered the final stages of construction on its new coral research facility in the Florida Keys and remains on schedule to open the center in the spring.

Mote's internationally renowned research center and aquarium on City Island in Sarasota already attract about 300,000 to 400,000 visitors annually who marvel at the diversity of marine life ...

Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium in Sarasota was founded in 1955 by Dr. Eugenie Clark, known as the “Shark Lady,” in an effort to to further conservation and education of marine habitats. The ...

For Mote, that has culminated in the Elizabeth Moore International Center for Coral Reef Research and Restoration, a privately funded $7 million, 19,000-square-foot laboratory and housing complex ...