Latest Manatee News from FL
 

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/...,5361446.story

BTW, who do you think paid for the $5 million of water heaters for Manatees!:angry-smiley-038:

thanks to global warming the SOB need water heaters huh!!!:lolhit::lolhit:

Unreal.

Manatees !
 

They taste like chicken !

Hope they make it over to your waterways, boating will never be the same!:evilb:

Kfm
 

Kentucky Fried Manatees !:evilb:

Can't we just poison the f'n things?

These people ever heard of natural selection and evolution?
If the water is too cold then any animal with any sense and reason for living would find a new habitat.
Its bad enough we coddle stupid people but to coddle stupid animals takes the prize..

Land Manatee !
 

CATMANDO,same behavior :evilb::evilb:

BP tried:party-smiley-004:

5 mil for heaters and up north we have to close two schools and lay of 150 teachers because there is no money wtf

let em die so we can go fast again!!

Not only that i would imagine its probably not a good idea to interfere with it either. If instinct doesnt provide for survival it should not be altered to be dependant on an outside means.

When we moved to Brevard Co. Fl. in 1990, the $TM club was just coming onto the Manatee scene in a big way. They came to Brevard co. and said that the power plants warm water discharges were BAD for the manatee,(DUH!) because it disrupts their natural migration pattern, (South to the Caribbean for the winter). Fast forward 10 years, and the $TM are the ones who SUED the state of Fl./FPL and WON to have the heaters installed, what a flip/flop.
It's the $TM Club that's the major problem, bunch of POS's and liars!
Dean
BTW, Jimmy Buffet is an A-hole!

Yep,
The $TM Credo is Manatee before humans!
Dean

there is a sign at the boat launch in my neighborhood warning about manatees, there is also one somewhere else but I can't remember where...asked the wildlife and fisheries officer this year about it and he had no clue! :grinser010: I'll take a pic next time I'm down there and post it here. I want to take it down and put the sign in my boat slip at the camp:lolhit:

LA,
I think I owe you an apology, I meant to say, I hope they NEVER make it to your waterways, sorry about that, I probobly sounded like a d!ck.

So here is the latest manatee news

http://www.floridatoday.com/article/...illing+sea+cow


BTW, we live off Sykes Creek, and I blow thru those manatee zones every chance I get! I got to keep a better eye out for the Tree huggers on shore who call in the Speeders!:eek:
Dean

Do you still have to idle with jet drive boats and PWC's? I suspect you do, just had to ask.

There is one on Bayou Lacome by my parents house. I saw it posted on the dock at th launch about 2 years ago.

Yep,
It doesn't matter what type of propulsion system you have.... The main KILLERS of manatees are the BIG commericial Tugs and the barges they push, Manatees can't hear them coming and they get crushed or mauled by the HUGE props that are on the Tugs.

Here's the follow-up article in the paper this morning.

http://www.floridatoday.com/article/...stly-to-boater

I have never heard of any in the state...have you? and dean, no apology necessary:lolhit::drink:

I live in Ga so excuse my ignorance, but why is everyone so up in arms about this issue? Does it restrict alot of the waterways in fl? Really I'm not being a smart azz, I just don't understand.

jimmy a a-hole,hah,just a pos.i feel sorry for you guys and grils in FLA USA

Go to www.cffw.org and that should help answer your questions.
Bottom line, there are thousands of miles of Manatee zones in Fl's waterways now, thanks to $MC and Jimmy Stuff-it!:angry-smiley-038:

So they are in waterways used frequently by boaters? I guess living here we think of boating in fl as being in the ocean. In these waterways is it all idle speed? That would be the pits. Is it getting worse for boaters or is it something that has been in place for a long time?
The waterways you are speaking of, are they the way to reach open water?
Thanks for educating me.

TS,
Yes to all your q's, except some of the channels in the rivers are 25 MPH Max speed.
Dean

The biggest one being the intercoastal waterway, originally designed as a water freeway from Miami to the north is now a water crawlway due to the misplaced efforts of a few people..

And Miata was also ordered to forfeit to the government the boat he was operating when he killed the manatee.


Anyone else find this very alarming!!!!!!

you gotta be kidding me!!! WTF!!!

Yeah,
That was the biggest freaking thing for me also.....:bsflag: I wonder what law was used for that?!:eek:

No, I have never seen one in the bayou or in the lake. neither has my dad and he takes the boat out about 3 times a week.

But then again, in that area they have prob been shot:evilb: just like the gators that eat all the ducks:eek:

It would certainly alarm me and anyone with a half million dollar boat. I can't believe they would have 25mph speed limit on a waterway that give boaters access to travel north of Miami.
Is there any groups of people that speek out for boaters, are they getting anywhere with it?

We need to get a handle on this-
 

Any groups working to stop them?

The environmentalists are destroying all boating activities in South Florida. They have manatee zones EVERYWHERE on the intracoastal now and it's only getting worse...