Livers were shriveled, muscles resembled cooked celery, guts held sand from desperation foraging and none were pregnant.
Those findings from dead manatees, starved by pollution-triggered eradication of their seagrass diet, came this week from state veterinary scientists.
At the same time, a report from the Marine Resources Council depicts water quality and clarity along Florida’s Atlantic coast as improving slightly amid the urgent campaign of environmental restoration, but the last traces of seagrass continue to perish and little is sprouting again.
