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We've gotten better at the surveys and added more areas we think manatees will be.

Holly Edwards

We felt it was very important to let people know there are more manatees now than there were 25 years ago. So we're not in any emergency situation; we are in a situation where we have to manage the species carefully.

Ted Forsgren

We've gotten better at the surveys and added more areas we think manatees will be. We've learned a lot about how weather affects counts, and really refined our calculations about the weather and the days that we fly.

Holly Edwards

The count's over when I run out of spring or run out of manatees.

Wayne Hartley

It's a carefully calculated effort on the part of the people that manatees are in the way of.

Patti Thompson

This is a non-contact system that is good for the manatees.

Larry Taylor

What we've learned is the Florida manatee is genetically unique, and that it's isolated from manatees elsewhere in the Caribbean and the Yucatan. Because of their low genetic diversity, it causes concern but not alarm.

Brian Bowen

We've learned a lot about how weather affects counts, and really refined our calculations about the weather and the days that we fly, I can't say it's not a possibility that there were 3,000 manatees in 1991.

Holly Edwards