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Sean Carroll on regaining manatees and fish at Scientific American.  He does make a political point.

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When did manatees become threatened?



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The ones in the cocoa beach canals, when I got an 8hp evinrude about 20 years ago, I always called them banana river speed bumps!

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When did manatees become threatened?"

Not yet.

There is a proposal to downlist from "endangered" to "threatened".

http://www.fws.gov/northflorida/manatee/manatees.htm

 



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Growing up here on the river in the 50's on, we rarely saw them--much more now!



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Yeah, there weren't any, so why protect them.  Now there are more.  I'm sure that had nothing to do with protections.

Seriously, WTF dude?  Either no logic or no communications skills or...likely...both.



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crankit

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So a reply with an honest question bothers you, the statement was that there are more now than there ever were!



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Greensleeves

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100 words into the article.  Too far?

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stokedpanda

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They are one of those "non native" species we cater too, plus they ate all the dang sea grass!

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I didn't know anybody fished for them!



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Greensleeves

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Us non-natives have to look out for the other non-natives!

Seriously you can google anything!

 

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dingpatch says they taste like chicken, so... they got that goin for them....

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Cole

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Native tribes in our area used them as a food source 15,000 years ago.

If 15,000 years doesn't qualify them as Florida natives, nothing does.

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Not like chicken, but kinda "gamey".

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crankit

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There are 2 different species of them-one native and one import. And in the older days there was some on the table at BBQ's in Fellsmere!



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There are three species of manatee, only one in Florida, the "West Indian Manatee", Trichechus manatus latirostris.

The other two species exist in the Amazon River and on the west coast of Africa.



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correct, tom. AND this is how you can tell the west indian variety - it has dreads, and likes reggae, ...

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there is a little known 4th variety and i think i saw her on a date with bob3000 last week
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The West Indian manatee's range is from the southern United States throughout the Caribbean Islands, Central America, and to northern South America.

 

In the United States, the Florida manatee, a sub-species of the West Indian manatee, inhabits the state’s coastal waters, rivers and springs. Some Florida manatee are known to travel up the eastern coastline into Georgia, the Carolinas, and a few travel as far north as Massachusetts during warm months.

 



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The West Indian Manatee swam here 20,000 or 50,000 or 100,000 years ago. It is a native species.

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