Lower St. Johns adds to record manatee deaths, but slightly

  • A crowd gathers to watch members of multiple agencies remove a manatee suffering from coldwater lesions from the St. Johns River in February. Both of the two manatees pulled from the river survived.. Palatka Daily News file
    A crowd gathers to watch members of multiple agencies remove a manatee suffering from coldwater lesions from the St. Johns River in February. Both of the two manatees pulled from the river survived.. Palatka Daily News file
Putnam County barely scratched the surface of contributing to manatee deaths this year, but the gentle giants had a rough year statewide. A record number of 1,075 manatee deaths were recorded in…

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