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“The manatees come here to Manatee Lagoon for that warm water, but we don’t have a large population of seagrass right here on our property,” Shanker said. “And so they’ll come here to ...

“The manatees come here to Manatee Lagoon for that warm water, but we don’t have a large population of seagrass right here on our property,” Shanker said. “And so they’ll come here to ...

A manatee was spotted in a Pompano Beach waterway ... and phosphorus led to algal blooms that killed thousands of acres of seagrass, causing over 1,000 manatees to die from starvation in the ...

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"The manatees come here to Manatee Lagoon for that warm water, but we don't have a large population of seagrass right here on our property," Shanker said. "And so they'll come here to Manatee ...