“We don't use these numbers to make management decisions, because of the bias that's inherent in the number, not knowing how many we miss from year to year. These are a minimum count.”
“We've learned a lot about how weather affects counts, and really refined our calculations about the weather and the days that we fly, I can't say it's not a possibility that there were 3,000 manatees in 1991.”
“We've gotten better at the surveys and added more areas we think manatees will be. We've learned a lot about how weather affects counts, and really refined our calculations about the weather and the days that we fly.”
