Navy is Enlisted in Plan to Protect Manatees
Turner R and Buckingham C. 1993. Navy is Enlisted in Plan to Protect Manatees. Endangered Species Technical Bulletin. 18(2):1, 9-10
An article outlining the efforts the Navy made in events to protect manatees. On the morning of May 7, 1990, a tugboat at the Naval Submarine Base (SUBBASE) at Kings Bay, Georgia, struck something that nearly stopped one of its 4,000-horsepower engines. Blood and animal tissue filled the water. Within hours, Robert 0. Turner, Manatee Coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), received the report: a West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus) might have been struck by a Ctractor rug, a 105-foot (32-meter) long boat designed to maneuver Navy submarines in the harbor. Bob Turner immediately contacted the manatee research group, the Sirenia Project, at rhe Gainesville, Florida, Field Station of the FWS National Ecology Research Center. The response to the incident touched off a series of events that has led to a new era in FWS/Navy cooperation for protection of this Endangered mammal.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Turner, Robert; Buckingham, Cheryl
- Units
- SFCN
- Keywords
- Endangered, Manatee, propeller, Protection, Radio transmitter