- December 18, 2025
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Mote Marine Laboratory scientists were in year four of a five-year plan to profitably produce caviar from an aquaculture park in rural Sarasota County in summer 2006.
The plan was largely on target, too, until a sweltering summer night almost derailed it.
That night was July 20, when the nonprofit, well known in the Sarasota-Bradenton area for its aquarium, was struck by what could be any organization's worst nightmare: a fire.
