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		</div><p>More manatees have died already this year than in any other year in Florida’s recorded history, primarily from starvation due to the loss of seagrass beds, officials said.</p>
<p>The Florida Fish &; Wildlife Conservation Commission reported that 841 manatee deaths were recorded between January 1 and July 2, breaking the previous record of 830 that died in 2013 because of an outbreak of toxic red tide.</p>
<p>The TCPalm website reports that more than half the deaths were in the Indian River Lagoon and its surrounding areas in Volusia, Brevard, Indian River, St Lucie and Martin counties.</p>
<p>The overwhelming majority have been in Brevard, where 312 manatees have died.</p>
<p>Some biologists believe water pollution is killing the seagrass beds in the area.</p>
<p>“Unprecedented manatee mortality due to starvation was documented on the Atlantic coast this past winter and spring,” Florida’s Fish and Wildlife Research Institute said on Friday.</p>
<p>“Most deaths occurred during the colder months when manatees migrated to and through the Indian River Lagoon, where the majority of seagrass has died off.”</p>
<p>Boat strikes are also a major cause of manatee deaths, killing at least 63 this year.</p>
<p>The manatee was once classified as endangered by the federal government, but it was reclassified as threatened in 2017.</p>
<p>Environmentalists are asking that the animal again be considered endangered.</p>
<p>The federal government says approximately 6,300 manatees live in Florida waters, up from about 1,300 in the early 1990s.</p>
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