More Manatees Have Died in Florida So Far This Year Than in All of 2017. Here’s Why

Posted on Aug 24, 2018 |

From: Miami Herald

“Most of the suspected or confirmed Red Tide victims were found dead in Charlotte, Lee and Collier counties, but one recently turned up floating in Terra Ceia Bay in Manatee County. “We find that the primary route is through ingestion of seagrass that has the toxins on it,” Dr. Martine de Wit of the state’s marine mammal pathology laboratory in St. Petersburg said Monday."

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