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Thanks! I'll look up the reference but hadn't got around to it yet... 
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13 Mar 2022, 12:41 pm
txfz1 wrote:
Florida and the south turned the "endangered" classification around by awareness to the boaters. When I sailed and was at a southern marina, they would come up to the boat when washing off the decks. They love fresh water but we were told not to let them drink from the hose, it messed up their stomachs.
Sad to see they are now overpopulated as no habitat for them to feed.
Sad to see they are now overpopulated as no habitat for them to feed.
Maybe some of them need to become a single source surf & turf plate at seaside diners?
Manatee burgers.. that'd reduce their population w/o wasting their carcasses.
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for supporting trump. Because doing so is deplorable.13 Mar 2022, 12:55 pm
goldfish21 wrote:
txfz1 wrote:
Florida and the south turned the "endangered" classification around by awareness to the boaters. When I sailed and was at a southern marina, they would come up to the boat when washing off the decks. They love fresh water but we were told not to let them drink from the hose, it messed up their stomachs.
Sad to see they are now overpopulated as no habitat for them to feed.
Sad to see they are now overpopulated as no habitat for them to feed.
Maybe some of them need to become a single source surf & turf plate at seaside diners?
Manatee burgers.. that'd reduce their population w/o wasting their carcasses.
WTF are you implying?
13 Mar 2022, 1:16 pm
goldfish21 wrote:
txfz1 wrote:
Florida and the south turned the "endangered" classification around by awareness to the boaters. When I sailed and was at a southern marina, they would come up to the boat when washing off the decks. They love fresh water but we were told not to let them drink from the hose, it messed up their stomachs.
Sad to see they are now overpopulated as no habitat for them to feed.
Sad to see they are now overpopulated as no habitat for them to feed.
Maybe some of them need to become a single source surf & turf plate at seaside diners?
Manatee burgers.. that'd reduce their population w/o wasting their carcasses.
No, that is illegal to do in the US. They are overpopulated in a very small area that grows the food that they need to survive now. That area tends to be near where people are active on the water, near shorelines. Boats often kill them when they hit them accidentally. Their habitat has been mostly destroyed by man, so that reduces their feeding choices and areas to live in. Manatees are a protected species in US waters. What they need is a better living condition with more space and food, not for them to become human food. Some of them have been taken to aquariums to nurse them back from the conditions that they are in.
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13 Mar 2022, 1:54 pm
txfz1 wrote:
goldfish21 wrote:
txfz1 wrote:
Florida and the south turned the "endangered" classification around by awareness to the boaters. When I sailed and was at a southern marina, they would come up to the boat when washing off the decks. They love fresh water but we were told not to let them drink from the hose, it messed up their stomachs.
Sad to see they are now overpopulated as no habitat for them to feed.
Sad to see they are now overpopulated as no habitat for them to feed.
Maybe some of them need to become a single source surf & turf plate at seaside diners?
Manatee burgers.. that'd reduce their population w/o wasting their carcasses.
It wasn't written in any sort of secret code. If there are too many, cull them like we do wolves and seals.
WTF are you implying?
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goldfish21 wrote:
txfz1 wrote:
goldfish21 wrote:
txfz1 wrote:
Florida and the south turned the "endangered" classification around by awareness to the boaters. When I sailed and was at a southern marina, they would come up to the boat when washing off the decks. They love fresh water but we were told not to let them drink from the hose, it messed up their stomachs.
Sad to see they are now overpopulated as no habitat for them to feed.
Sad to see they are now overpopulated as no habitat for them to feed.
Maybe some of them need to become a single source surf & turf plate at seaside diners?
Manatee burgers.. that'd reduce their population w/o wasting their carcasses.
It wasn't written in any sort of secret code. If there are too many, cull them like we do wolves and seals.
WTF are you implying?
Sorry but I still no clue why you think culling is the best option and why that is related to me? You may think it's not in code but for communication to work both parties have to understand. I'm positive you may understand but I'm thinking you are trying to insult me.
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13 Mar 2022, 2:33 pm
txfz1 wrote:
goldfish21 wrote:
txfz1 wrote:
goldfish21 wrote:
txfz1 wrote:
Florida and the south turned the "endangered" classification around by awareness to the boaters. When I sailed and was at a southern marina, they would come up to the boat when washing off the decks. They love fresh water but we were told not to let them drink from the hose, it messed up their stomachs.
Sad to see they are now overpopulated as no habitat for them to feed.
Sad to see they are now overpopulated as no habitat for them to feed.
Maybe some of them need to become a single source surf & turf plate at seaside diners?
Manatee burgers.. that'd reduce their population w/o wasting their carcasses.
It wasn't written in any sort of secret code. If there are too many, cull them like we do wolves and seals.
WTF are you implying?
Sorry but I still no clue why you think culling is the best option and why that is related to me? You may think it's not in code but for communication to work both parties have to understand. I'm positive you may understand but I'm thinking you are trying to insult me.
Wtf?
I replied to your post. You said they're overpopulated. One way to resolve that problem is to reduce the population. Totally wasteful just to kill them off and let them rot; better utilized as food than fertilizer. Hence my suggestion.
How is it a mystery why my reply was to your quoted post?
How is that an insult towards you?
Wtf?
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13 Mar 2022, 4:56 pm
goldfish21 wrote:
txfz1 wrote:
Florida and the south turned the "endangered" classification around by awareness to the boaters. When I sailed and was at a southern marina, they would come up to the boat when washing off the decks. They love fresh water but we were told not to let them drink from the hose, it messed up their stomachs.
Sad to see they are now overpopulated as no habitat for them to feed.
Sad to see they are now overpopulated as no habitat for them to feed.
Maybe some of them need to become a single source surf & turf plate at seaside diners?
Manatee burgers.. that'd reduce their population w/o wasting their carcasses.
Jonathan Swift's solution eh? I wonder how well they live up to the name "sea cows" gastronomically speaking.
