Archive | April, 2007

Eight Manatees Killed in Lee County

6 April 2007

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Eight manatees died in Lee County as a result of red tide between March 7th and March 24th. On Thursday, the Marine Mammal Pathobiology Laboratory based in St. Petersburg, FL, also released toxicology findings that showed that ten other manatee deaths could have also been caused by red tide. Tissue sample tests still need to [...]

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Open letter to the people on the South West Coast of Florida

6 April 2007

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This is an open letter to the people on the South West Coast of Florida. I am alarmed by what appears to me to be false information disseminated by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and their associates or contractors as to the facts surrounding the catastrophic red tide outbreaks from the Tampa Bay [...]

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High School kids prove Mote Marine wrong again

4 April 2007

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Erik Downes, 16, and Andrew Mehlman, 17, want to accomplish nothing less than "determine an end to the serious problem of red tide ... and to find the largest factor for why the bloom grows so large so quickly."

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26 Manatees killed by Red Tide in past 2 weeks

3 April 2007

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Twenty-six manatee carcasses have been found in Lee County in the past two weeks. Three of four recently reported carcasses in western Lee County have been recovered, according to Sara McDonald of Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. The fourth was verified this morning. Toxin results from one rescued manatee that died last week revealed [...]

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