Several thousand redfish raised 17 miles inland are now swimming freely in Sarasota Bay.Those are the first of 20,000 redfish raised nowhere near a bay or inlet, but at Mote Marine’s Aquaculture Research Park, a 200-acre inland fish farm along Fruitville Road east of Interstate 75,
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In 2019, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law an initiative between the state and Sarasota-based Mote Marine Laboratory that includes $3 million a year for six years to develop strategies to mitigate the impacts of red tide.
The facility recently opened in partnership with the state to fight the impacts of red tide. This facility will use nearly 150 thousand gallons of treated and recirculated seawater for safe and controlled testing of mitigation technologies,” DeSantis said. “The opening of this facility is an important step in enhancing our long-term research efforts to combat red tide. It s really impressive to see just the variety of ways in which they re tackling this.