"Hit by props, if not deep even at idle they can get hit"
"Boating activity in manatee areas, and manatee activity in boating areas"
"Too many speed boats. When they go 90 miles an hour the manatees don't have a chance.
Saw a bunch on Shell Island and People were trying to catch them and they had scars-even
the babies"

Control Group

"Striking manatees, impact"
"Manatees and boaters both exist"
"Commercial traffic in shipping lanes"
"Population of boaters increases"
"Poor information"
People can't see them (6)
"They go after the sound of the propeller"
"Our pleasure and their (manatee) living at the same time"
"It just happens, no one does it on purpose"
"I've seen pictures of the scars"
"Because they are slow- we don't hit dolphins"
"When a boat runs into a manatee it cuts them up"
"Accidents happen"
"Boaters are not aware that manatees are there"
"We don't know about them, like their habits"
"The manatee got in the way of the boat"
"Boats are traversing manatee areas"
" I do not know if there are manatee deaths"
We are in the same space (4)
Get hit by propellers (4)
Manatees are in channels that they don't normally go
"Boats are manatees only natural enemy"
"Public unawareness of the habitats and their overall lack of mobility; they don't move
as fast as other animals, (like a dolphin)"
"Some people pay attention"
"No fences underwater for the manatees"
"People are not informed on how to protect them"
Boating traffic
"There are more of them. They are too friendly"
"They are mammals, they have to breath, so accidents occur
"People do not follow regulations
"Because they can't hear the low frequency idle engine while we're idling in low speed
zones"
"Increase in motor boats"
"Human interaction, feeding, taming, petting them used to being around boats"
"Failure to obey laws"
"People don't know where manatees are"
"Too many boats on the water" (2)