Doug,

Its obvious from your defensive and soulful rant that you have never
been on or even near the St. Johns River, where the new zones went into
place. Pick out a stretch of water 4 miles wide and 300 miles long. Now
take away all the water is OVER 8 feet deep and that is what the sea cow
DOES NOT USE. Yet it is all a CowZone.

24 mph in the channal is ridiculous. The cow doesn't go there. 3000 foot
buffer zones are ridiculous. The cow doesn't go past 800! Why? there is
no food, and they like to laze on the bottom and come up with a light
burp to get air.

Please get your facts straight.

Capt. Frank, Who has Manatees all around his dock.

By the way, have you ever heard a Manatee fart?

Doug Kanter wrote:

"Gfretwell" wrote in message
...

Tell ya what: I'd agree with eliminating "Manatee zones", as long as we

also

eliminate all boating regulations in any area where your children swim.
How's that?



You don't have a clue what we are talking about do you? Folks in Nebraska

think

a "manatee zone" is some small little cove somewhere, off the beaten path.

In

some places like SW Fla it is virtually everywhere that isn't "offshore".


I have plenty of clues. I'm reacting to your attitude. Earlier in this
thread, someone explained what may well be the real reason the manatees are
where they are in such high numbers: Warm water from electric plants. This
is an example of an animal adjusting to an artificial situation WE created,
same as lake trout congregate around warm water plumes here in Lake Ontario.
If you don't like the situation, stop using electricity or move to another
planet. There's no free lunch.

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 02:27:08 GMT, "Don White"
wrote:

What are you complaining about?
The US and Canada were founded by, and prospered with, immigrants.
What makes the Manatee so different?


Capt. Frank Hopkins wrote in message
news:BiW%a.21907
snip...
The Sea Cow is not even a native, but comes from the east indies. Why we
lettin some forign critter take over?

C.F.


It's hard to tell, since Capt. Frank is responding to posts from back
in May of this year. My news provider doesn't have that kind of
retention, thankfully.

noah

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 01:51:29 +0000, Capt. Frank Hopkins wrote:

The Sea Cow is not even a native, but comes from the east indies.
Why we lettin some forign critter take over?

The manatee regulations may be to stringent, but the above is pure
BS. The manatee has been indigenous to Florida for over 45 million
years. Florida even has it's own subspecies, Trichechus manatus
latirostris.

On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 23:52:44 -0400, "thunder" wrote:

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 01:51:29 +0000, Capt. Frank Hopkins wrote:

The Sea Cow is not even a native, but comes from the east indies.
Why we lettin some forign critter take over?

The manatee regulations may be to stringent, but the above is pure
BS. The manatee has been indigenous to Florida for over 45 million
years. Florida even has it's own subspecies, Trichechus manatus
latirostris.

Yeah, but 45 million years ago it must have come from somewhere.

Steve

(Steven Shelikoff) wrote in message ...
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 23:52:44 -0400, "thunder" wrote:

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 01:51:29 +0000, Capt. Frank Hopkins wrote:

The Sea Cow is not even a native, but comes from the east indies.
Why we lettin some forign critter take over?

The manatee regulations may be to stringent, but the above is pure
BS. The manatee has been indigenous to Florida for over 45 million
years. Florida even has it's own subspecies, Trichechus manatus
latirostris.

Yeah, but 45 million years ago it must have come from somewhere.

Steve

Then, using the same analogy, humans must not be a native species of earth, correct?

On 18 Aug 2003 12:07:05 -0700, (basskisser) wrote:

Then, using the same analogy, humans must not be a native species of earth, correct?

Of course we are, you dope. We were put here by a christian god to
plunder the earth's resources and await the return of Jesus. Don't
you follow politics at all?

bb

"basskisser" wrote in message
om...
(Steven Shelikoff) wrote in message
...
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 23:52:44 -0400, "thunder" wrote:

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 01:51:29 +0000, Capt. Frank Hopkins wrote:

The Sea Cow is not even a native, but comes from the east indies.
Why we lettin some forign critter take over?

The manatee regulations may be to stringent, but the above is pure
BS. The manatee has been indigenous to Florida for over 45 million
years. Florida even has it's own subspecies, Trichechus manatus
latirostris.

Yeah, but 45 million years ago it must have come from somewhere.

Steve

Then, using the same analogy, humans must not be a native species of
earth, correct?

No - humans are actually evolved Ewoks because Darth Vader,
a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away f'd up the Ewok
moon, so they stole the remaining pieces of the Death Star and
migrated to this galaxy, had sex with Princess Leia and produced
offspring remarkably like Lucy, the theoretical proto-human found
in Ethiopia - which, at the time the Ewoks settled here, was a lush
tropical rain forest with a zillion foot high cedar trees and a really
cool power relay station for the Kzin who had originally settled
Earth, but devolved into lions, tigers and house cats after a disastrous
war with Puppeteers.

Hey, it could have happened...

Later,

Tom

"Capt. Frank Hopkins" wrote in message
hlink.net...

By the way, have you ever heard a Manatee fart?

Isn't that technically a blart?