Manatee deaths dropped in 2022 from a record high the year before, but Florida wildlife officials said Wednesday that chronic starvation caused by water pollution remains a major concern
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — — Manatee deaths dropped in 2022 from athe year before, but Florida wildlife officials said Wednesday that chronic starvation caused by water pollution remains a major concern.
FWC manatee biologist Michelle Pasawicz said the feeding program certainly helped some individual manatees, but the decline in deaths may also be attributed to the weaker, sickest animals perishing in the earlier months of the die-off. The long-term key to manatee survival is restoration of beds of seagrass on which they depend, officials say. Seagrass in thethat stretches for miles along the east coast has been decimated by water pollution from agriculture, septic tanks, urban runoff and other sources.
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