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APR 1.7 1990 <br />EOOK PAGE 9�Z <br />Thank you for the hard work that you have put into the <br />development of a satisfactory interim plan for manatee protection. <br />Please let me know how we can assist further in bringing this to <br />a speedy resolution. <br />Sincerely, <br />v <br />Pamela P. McVety, Director <br />Division of Marine Resources <br />PPM/ieb <br />cc: Bob Turner <br />Bill Moody°°p,�� <br />900405.rd <br />Ray Le Roux a <br />Administration Beaches and Shores Law Enforcement Marine Resources Recreation and Parks Resource Management State Lends <br />Bob Martinez . Jim Smith Bob Butterworth Gerald Lewis <br />Tom Gallagher <br />Doyle Conner <br />Betty Castor <br />Governor Secretary of State Attorney General State Comptroller <br />Statelreasurer <br />CommissionerofAgriculture <br />Commissionerof Education <br />Commissioner Bird didn't know <br />how he got <br />chosen on <br />this, but <br />he got a call a couple of weeks ago from staff asking him if he <br />would be willing to meet with a couple of people from DNR and the <br />Fish & Wildlife Service about the State's reaction to our interim <br />manatee protection plan. Perhaps it was because he was pretty <br />vocal at the meeting when we adopted the interim plan, but in any <br />case, they came down and he met with Bob Turner and Beth Beeler. <br />Bill Moody, an avid water-skier, was at the meeting, along with <br />some of our staff. Basically, the State is saying that our <br />Interim Manatee Protection Plan was not sufficient in their minds <br />to properly protect the manatee, and they have asked if we would <br />be interested in a compromise plan. He told them that he felt <br />the philosophy of the Commission at that meeting was that we <br />didn't feel we were a major contributor to deaths of manatee in <br />the state, and that we didn't feel that we needed to go overboard <br />with an overly restrictive plan limiting the boating public. He <br />told them that we certainly were sensitive to the manatee <br />situation and wanted to do what we could to protect them in the <br />areas where they were known to congregate in the greatest <br />36 <br />