Get your snook license, your boat and your fishing pole and you might  just be able to feed your child a fish that has been spawned, tagged and released into the wild if you hook one of them. If your child gets lost and you have had snook lately just give MOTE Marine Aquaculture Park a call and ask them if they can locate your child! Ok, ok they may not volunteer to track your child but just be careful if you eat Snook! It may have a small tracking device embeded in it.

According to a report on News Channel 8 on the morning of Sept. 5, 2007 MOTE Marine has tagged and released thousands of tiny snook into four Sarasota, Florida creeks in an effort to learn more about the snook's life journey.

After spawning thousand of these tiny fish and then tagging them with a stainless steel rod that is approximately 1/25" in size MOTE Marine Aquaculture Park has released them into the wild in Florida creeks. The spawning is apparently the first "successful" attempt to do so. According to the marine biologists at MOTE the snook population has declined due to overfishing and loss of habitat due to building projects.

I don't know if this link will work after today to view the video report but if you visit this link you might get to watch the entire 2:17 long report:

http://tbo.com/video/xml/MGBR7RTSD7F.html