Manatee zones enforcement in sw fl area....

[XstreamVking]

I have seen the dead manatees killed by the cold water brought into the boat ramp where they tie them up. (and do they stink). By the time they get reported in the news, the things are cut from one end to the other. Looking like prop marks. But mysteriously they have no skeg marks to go along with the other cuts. Sumptin sneaky def going on here.

[71V153]

My boat draws about 6 inches on plane and 18 inches off plane. Which is more of a threat to the manatee?

In your particular case we think 12" would be best ... Why would you wanna put your boat on a airplane anyway?

[71V153]

I have seen the dead manatees killed by the cold water brought into the boat ramp where they tie them up. (and do they stink). By the time they get reported in the news, the things are cut from one end to the other. Looking like prop marks. But mysteriously they have no skeg marks to go along with the other cuts. Sumptin sneaky def going on here.

Yup! Probly seen a hundred pics of Manatee with prop scars. Never a skeg.

According to their benefactors the Manatee is a cousin of the Elephant. Who we all know never forgets. They also like to say Manatee have keen eyesight & hearing and posess the intelligence of a Dolphin. Hmm.

Fwiw the Dolphin I've spoken with recently are extremely offended by this generalization ...

[Forkin' Crazy]

How do the poor manatees got the money for the fines?

I think the poor manatee have more intelligence in two brain cells then was used in the previous post. WTF?

[Forkin' Crazy]

I was flipping through the channels this morning. Landed on a kids show when something that looked like a manatee came into view. They start on our kids early. The whole kids' show was about manatee rehabilitation and to be released into the wild after they recovered from being hit by an evil boat. With a power plant in the back ground no less.

[Mark Poole ModVP]

The manatee in the pic on post 29 was struck by the prop of a large commercial vessel. The fuel barges that run up and down the St. Johns and other florida rivers probably hurt and kill more manatees than anything else. But, try convincing a bunch of enviro extremeists that those slashes did not come from a standard size outboard prop.

[Cavit8]

For years the rich who live on the water tried to stop the boat traffic . Time after time the cases were thrown out of court . It seems that the water doesnt belong to just the rich , well not yet anyhow.
They found a different angle to work , in essence if they made boater's , high speed boaters .. you know the type , the ones who travel at speeds greater than 25 mph out to be murderers of the sacred cow .. it worked . No judge or represenitive wants to go on record as supporting the slaughter of the sacred cow .. to confuze people with fact and tell them that most sacred cows are crushed by barges on the St. Johns would do just as good as saying the TSA is acting correctly in stopping the guy with the Semper-Fi tattoo while Ackmed and Habeeb walk freely by without much more than a passing glance ...
We have become a nation of idiots who think that the deterioration of our nation will somehow not impact our personal lifes . I feel my blood pressure rising , so I need to let this go ... for now .
I bought one of these , i wore it once , my wife cut it up and put it with the shop rags ... now I dont think we should perposly go out and kill these sacred cows into extinction ... but a little "un" common sense would go a long way ...

http://www.endangeredoutlaw.com/mens...4826143e915bad

This is the actual truth. If saving the manatee was the real intent they would outlaw cold weather and red tide.

[BUSHWACKER]

This is the actual truth. If saving the manatee was the real intent they would outlaw cold weather and red tide.

I'm sure they will thank you for the 2 new rules they will have passed by lunch time, then take off til after New Years to rest up!

[Cavit8]

I'm sure they will thank you for the 2 new rules they will have passed by lunch time, then take off til after New Years to rest up!

Sad, but probably true.

[bretter]

Cullen, its not evading if you don't look back. Plus we can run a lot skinnier than they can!

[XstreamVking]

Brett, even your LCB can't out run the plane and the motorola...... I just obey the rules and hope they get bored with all the compliant boaters and go some place to hassle other boaters.... It is getting harder all the time, just staying out of the laws way. New radar guns to check for 25 mph in the channel? Their really getting desperate to write tickets now.....Will your boat go as slow as 25mph and stay on plane?

[Eggsuckindog]

The radar guns were a gift from Save The Mantee Club - big hoopla a few years ago

[Li'l Toy]

Chaz said what I was going to say as I read this thread. At least on the east coast of Florida, it isn't first and foremost a revenue thing. It is an excuse for wealthy waterfront folks, often condo commandos, to slow down those big, noisy boats they don't want around.

It is hilarious to head up the North Fork of the St. Lucie River. It is an almost completely wild, full of oxbows, beautiful old Florida river that runs right through the town of Port St. Lucie. But there are one or two place s where a housing community touches on the river, or there is a condo or apartment house. Sure enough, those are the Manatee zones. Go figure--I guess the manatees are attracted to the docks?

[71V153]

I would never wish ill will on an any animal. Even a Manatee. But 'protecting' them has gotten a lil outa hand?

FPL aka Florida Plunder & Loot charges customers to keep this invasive species warm'n cozy in football field size hot tubs. Replete with 'viewing stations', read: bleachers. So's they can indoctrinate the uninformed tourista.

[oldskier]

I would never wish ill will on an any animal. Even a Manatee. But 'protecting' them has gotten a lil outa hand?

FPL aka Florida Plunder & Loot charges customers to keep this invasive species warm'n cozy in football field size hot tubs. Replete with 'viewing stations', read: bleachers. So's they can indoctrinate the uninformed tourista.

Doug, When I was still down there we were told manatees (we called 'em sea cows back in the day) were imported because they eat the water hyacinth that was clogging up the canals in Port Charlotte. Oh well, maybe the Burmese Pythons will start feeding on 'em....