Florida Manatee Mortality 1974-2010
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission - Fish and Wildlife Research Institute

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission - Fish and Wildlife Research Institute

This dataset contains data from the geographic information system (GIS) shapefile of recovered Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris) carcass locations within Florida from April 1974 through to the latest spatially verified data presently available. Locations are based both on coordinates provided by field staff (gathered either by geographic positioning system [GPS] or by using navigation charts to ascertain latitudes and longitudes) and maps provided by the field staff. Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI) GIS staff in the Marine Mammal subsection verify that the provided coordinates match the intent of the plotted location. Points representing carcass locations were entered into a GIS using a digital shoreline basemap taken largely from NOAA navigation charts (1:40,000) and from USGS quadrangles (1:24,000). The scale is considered to be 1:40,000.

The primary use of this dataset is to display reported manatee carcass recovery locations and associated attributes, such as cause of death.

Prior to July 1, 2004, the Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI) was known as the Florida Marine Research Institute (FMRI).
Counts were not available and filled with "1"; time was not available and filled with "00:00:00." These were noted in the [Notes] field.
7/21/2011: This dataset, originally containing data from 1974-2008, was updated to include 2009-2010 data.
11/11/2011: This dataset, originally containing data from 1974-early 2010, was updated to include data through December 2010 data.

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Overview

Attributes described below represent those in the original dataset provided by the provider.
Only minimum required attributes are visible and downlodable online. Other attributes may be obtained upon provider's permission unless otherwise noteded below.

This section explains attributes included in the original dataset. OBIS-SEAMAP restricts the attributes available to the public to date/time, lat/long and species names/counts only. Should you need other attributes described here, you are encouraged to contact the data provider.

Attributes in dataset provided

Attribute (table column)	Description
oid	Unique ID number (generated by SEAMAP)
fieldid	Unique Field ID assigned to each manatee carcass recovered. This ID is used to identify the region of Florida, year and chronological order within that year for the region of Florida where the carcass was recovered. Exceptions include animals that were rescued, then died while in the care of an oceanaria facility, which include Sea World (SWFTm), Lowry Park Zoo (LPZ) and Miami Seaquarium (MSQ).
obs_date	The date that the manatee carcass was originally reported (MM/DD/YYYY format).
repyear	Reported year
repmonth	Reported month
repday	Reported day
sex	Sex of recovered manatee carcass (M: male, F: female, U: unknown)
tlength	Total length of the manatee carcass, measured from snout to fluke edge in centimeters.
state	State in which the manatee carcass was recovered.
county	County within Florida that the manatee carcass was recovered in.
latitude	Latitude of manatee carcass recovery location. Decimal degree, in NAD27
longitude	Longitude of manatee carcass recovery location. Decimal degree, in NAD27
dcode	Cause of death represented by coded numeric values. Please contact the data provider for detail.
mortality	Description of the DCODE field.
species	Species observed
obs_count	Always 1. Added by OBIS-SEAMAP.
sp_tsn	ITIS taxonomic serial number. This field added by OBIS-SEAMAP
obs_time	Time was not recorded and filled with "00:00:00"
notes	Notes for when time was not available and "00:00:00" was filled and when counts were not available "1" was filled