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	Audubon of Florida :: Restoration Science
		The bay is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico and to the southeast by the Florida Keys and the Atlantic Ocean.
		Florida Bay is an important nursery for a variety of marine life including spiny lobster, red drum, spotted seatrout, pink shrimp and myriad other species of commercial and recreational importance.
		Florida Bay is connected to the Atlantic Ocean, the coral reef tract, Card Sound and Biscayne Bay to the east, and the Gulf of Mexico and 10,000 islands to the west by very complex ocean currents and tidal eddies.
	www.audubonofflorida.org /science/floridabay.htm (577 words)

	Reef Relief - Coral Reef Threats: Florida Bay
		Florida Bay and the Florida Keys are at the downstream end of the Kissimmee River-Lake Okeechobee-Everglades watershed (Fig.
		In Florida Bay, large algal blooms have developed and persisted, large areas of seagrasses and sponges have died off, and major changes have occurred in fish populations (Zieman et al, 1994; Robblee et al., 1991; Boesch et al., 1993; Durako, 1994; Thayer et al., 1994; Butler et al., 1995; McPherson and Halley, 1997).
		In the Florida Keys, macroalgae have overgrown many coral reefs, coral diseases appear to be spreading, and many corals have died (Dustan and Halas, 1987; Porter and Meier, 1992; Ogden et al.,1994; Kuta and Richardson, 1996; Richardson, et al., 1996; Richardson, 1997).
	www.reefrelief.org /FloridaBay/report.html (862 words)

	Florida Bay & Adjacent Marine Systems
		Shallow and often hypersaline, the Bay was until recently characterized by clear waters and lush seagrass meadows covering a mosaic of shallow water banks and numerous relatively deeper water basins.
		To generate the requisite information a group of federal and state agencies are collaborating in an interagency Florida Bay Science Program that conducts closely complementary research, monitoring, and modeling projects which together will answer the most critical scientific questions about the Bay ecosystem.
		The Florida Bay and Adjacent Marine Systems Science Program is a scientific component of the much larger South Florida Ecosystem Restoration initiative headed by a Task Force consisting of state and federal agency heads and representatives from other stakeholder groups.
	www.aoml.noaa.gov /flbay/program_overview.html (901 words)

	Florida Bay / Florida Keys Feasibility Study
		Florida Bay is located at the southern tip of the Florida peninsula and covers about 850 square miles, including 700 square miles within Everglades National Park.
		Florida Bay and nearby coastal embayments are the principal nursery habitat for pink shrimp which is the basis of a multimillion dollar fishery in the Tortugas.
		Conditions within Florida Bay have continued to visibly decline since 1987, including losses of seagrass habitat; diminished water clarity; micro-algal blooms of increasing intensity and duration; and population reductions in economically significant species such as pink shrimp, sponges, lobster, and recreational gamefish.
	www.evergladesplan.org /pm/studies/fl_bay.cfm (745 words)

	The Florida Bay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Florida Bay is a lagoonal estuary bordered on the north by the Florida mainland and on the southeast by the Florida Keys.
		Florida Bay is effectively divided into a series of basins by a complex network of anastomosing carbonate mudbanks that restrict circulation.
		Florida Bay serves as a nursery ground for at least 22 species of commercially and recreationally harvested species.
	www.env.duke.edu /wetland/hyflbay.htm (307 words)

	Florida Bay Fishing
		The bay and the Keys are part of the greater South Florida ecosystem, one that is unique to the world.
		This South Florida or Everglades ecosystem is approximately 10,800 square miles extending from Orlando to the Dry Tortugas.
		Florida Bay is a shallow inner-shelf lagoon located at the southern end of the south Florida watershed.
	www.fishfloridabay.com /florida_bay.html (259 words)

	An Introduction to Florida Bay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Florida Bay is also important economically, supporting a 59 million dollar shrimp fishery and 22 million dollar stone crab fishery.
		Florida Bay lies between the mainland and the chain of islands known as the Florida Keys.
		The Keys, and the Florida reef tract extend 220 miles south and west of the Florida peninsula.
	www.floridabay.org /intro.shtml (290 words)

	"Doing right by the bay"
		If the Everglades and Florida Bay are ever restored to some shadow of their former selves, it will bring to an end a drama that had it all - hubris, greed, Cold War politics and the grand folly of an idea that nature is a force to be conquered.
		Susan Olson, the Florida Bay coordinator for the South Florida Water Management District, recalled that her grandfather was on the local board that oversaw the remaking of the Everglades.
		The delicate saltwater-freshwater balance in the bay was disrupted, interfering with the reproduction of many marine species and creating conditions ripe for the spread of algae blooms, many scientists say.
	sln.fi.edu /inquirer/bay.html (1847 words)

	Kayaking Florida Bay
		Meanwhile salinity levels in the bay have doubled and 90 percent of the wading birds are gone.
		As we entered the Gulf of Mexico, the water, while far from clear, was no longer the sickly light green of Florida Bay.
		Ahead stretched a wall of mangrove, the edge of the vast swamps that separate Florida Bay and the coastal prairies from the wet grasslands beyond, hundreds of square miles of tiny islands and a labyrinth of channels that would test our navigation skills.
	www.chriskulczycki.com /floridabay.html (2101 words)

	Comeback in Florida Bay: Florida Environment radio
		Florida Bay is made up of shallow basins, filled with both seawater, and the freshwater runoff from the Everglades...
		Florida Bay -- the 850-square mile network of shallow basins directly south of the Florida peninsula -- is, for the first time in more than ten years, doing better.
		The health of Florida Bay is important to pink shrimp, one of the state's largest marine harvests...
	www.floridaenvironment.com /programs/fe91227.htm (1146 words)

	GulfBase - Florida Bay and Keys
		Florida Bay is a shallow lagoon system at the southern extreme of the state of Florida.
		The bay is bordered by mainland Florida to the north, the Florida Keys to the east and south, and is open to the Gulf of Mexico to the west.
		The bay serves as the estuary for the Florida Everglades and, as a result, a large portion of the bay is included in the Everglades National Park.
	www.gulfbase.org /bay/view.php?bid=florida (331 words)

	Florida Bay Dude! - Human Impact Background Information
		Consequently, south Florida has experienced a 90% drop in the wading bird populations due to loss of habitat and sources of food.
		Florida Bay, the downstream recipient of water distribution changes made to the north, is also experiencing an ecological imbalance.
		During the period from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, substantial parts of Florida Bay were consistently hypersaline.
	www.firn.edu /flbaydude/discuss/point3/info.html (1359 words)

	PISCES - Florida Bay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Florida Bay is an estuary covering approximately 1,100 square miles (2,850 square km) between the southern tip of Florida and the
		This results in a salinity gradient across the bay, increasing in salinity from north to south.
		that are common in the southern portion of Florida Bay.
	www.flmnh.ufl.edu /fish/southflorida/FloridaBay.html (267 words)

	South Florida Ecosystem History Website - Florida Bay
		Currently, under the South Florida Initiative of the Ecosystem Program, scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey are studying the paleoecologic changes taking place in Florida Bay in hopes of understanding the physical environment and restoring the region to a a more pristine, natural state.
		Cores collected from Florida Bay are first sampled for pollen, dinoflagellates and diatoms, washed through a seive stack to remove fine-grained mud, and analyzed for bottom-dwelling, or benthic, organisms, such as mollusks, foraminifera, and ostracodes.
		An examination of the patterns of benthic faunal distribution seen in the cores from Florida Bay has revealed that changes in salinity and substrate are part of the natural system.
	sofia.usgs.gov /flaecohist/floridabay.html (1199 words)

	City of Palm Bay - A Perfect Place to Grow
		The City of Palm Bay is located on the east Central Florida coast midway between Jacksonville and Miami, in south Brevard County, adjacent to the Indian River Lagoon which is part of the Intercoastal Waterway.
		The City of Palm Bay, FL, with over 105,000 in population, is growing at a fast pace, and still looking for commercial and industrial development to help balance the residential development that has already occurred within our City.
		The City of Palm Bay is governed by a City Council who are elected at-large and the City utilizes a Council/Manager form of government.
	www.palmbayflorida.org (858 words)

	Floripedia: Bay County, Florida
		Andrews Bay, with its east and west arms extending in a southeasterly and northwesterly direction, nearly bisects the county, the southern portion being made up of peninsulas, which are divided by bayous, sounds and lagoons.
		The manufacture of lumber from the yellow pine timber of Bay County has been carried on almost continuously at various points on the Bay for nearly one hundred years, but it is only within the last twenty years that large modern mills have been in operation.
		Andrews Bay oysters have been noted for their extra fine quality ever since the Bay began to be visited by white men, and much is now being done in cultivating this delicious bivalve.
	fcit.coedu.usf.edu /FLORIDA/docs/b/baycounty.htm (1891 words)

	Destinations and Interests - Florida - What's Your Request?
		You could plan your vacations in Florida for the rest of the decade and never have the same vacation twice.
		Florida offers something for the whole family, for every taste and interest.
		And, of course, Florida is the theme park capital of the world.
	www.wyndham.com /destinationsandinterests/destinations/florida/main.wnt (259 words)

	WILDLIFE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Florida bay is a sun-drenched, sub tropical estuary born at the meeting of fresh water and saltwater, stippled by more than two hundred tiny mangrove rimmed keys (islands).
		The waters of Florida Bay are the principle inshore nursery for Tortugas pink shrimp and provide important habitats for spiny lobster and stone crab.
		Southwestern Florida Bay is noted for its hard bottom habitats that support sponges and hard and soft coral communities.
	www.miamisci.org /ecolinks/floridabay/flabay.html (195 words)

	TPC Tampa Bay - Florida Golf Course Review
		The TPC Tampa Bay is a Bobby Weed championship design that is considered to be one of the most beautiful and rewarding experiences on the PGA Champions Tour.
		The TPC Tampa Bay is certified in the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Program, which works to address environmental issues and to provide habitats for native wildlife in urban settings.
		It is well worth it!For more info, visit our page for the TPC Tampa Bay, with direct link to their website by clicking here.
	florida.twoguyswhogolf.com /reviews/tpctampabay.html (706 words)

	The Florida Everglades and The Florida Bay
		The Florida Bay: an inlet of the sea or other body of water usually smaller than a gulf; a smaller body of water set off from the main body.
		Mapping Everglades Ecosystems huge comprehensive map of the Florida Everglades area from the 10,000 islands in the gulf to the Florida Bay.
		Florida Bay An important part of the South Florida ecosystem has seen signs of deterioration.
	www.floridasmart.com /sciencenature/naturalflorida/everglades.htm (439 words)

	SOFIA Virtual Tour - Florida Bay and Florida Keys
		Florida Bay, beyond the southern tip of Florida and along the southern shores of Everglades National Park, is the only place in the world where alligators and crocodiles coexist.
		The Florida Keys is a chain of small islands and reefs that extend in a southwesterly arc off the coast of South Florida.
		The Florida Keys are made of fossilized coral rock and are surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the south side and the Gulf of Mexico and Florida Bay on the north side.
	sofia.usgs.gov /virtual_tour/flbay (1554 words)

	Flyfishing in Florida Bay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Many Florida fly rodders raise the white flag on blustery winter days--just when Spanish mackerel become ripe for the picking.
		Each issue of Florida Sportsman is filled with interesting seminars on Offshore, Light Tackle, Bass, Angling Boatmanship and Fly Fishing.
		Florida Sportsman; the nation's leading sport fishing magazine, is now the web's best resource for information on sport fish, conservation issues, regional fishing within Florida and all fishing gear including fishing tackle, fishing rods and reels, and boating equipment of all kinds.
	www.floridasportsman.com /flyfishing/RFF_9802_When (1006 words)

	Florida Bay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Florida Bay is the shallow bay located between the southern end of the Florida mainland (the Florida Everglades) and the Florida Keys.
		Nearly all of Florida Bay is included in Everglades National Park.
		The bay muds of portions of Florida Bay have been cored to develop insights on the paleontology of previous biota[1].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Florida_Bay (323 words)

	Bay County, Florida Human Resources Department Home Page
		Bay County will make every reasonable effort to hire applicants with disabilities who are capable of performing the essential functions of the job, in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
		Bay County is a Drug-Free Workplace and requires testing for drugs as a condition of employment.
		All Records, except medical records, are open for inspection in accordance with the Florida Public Records Law, with the exception of those employee's records that are exempted under Chapter 119 Florida Statutes.
	www.co.bay.fl.us /bchr/index.html (698 words)

	2005 Florida Bay and Adjacent Marine Systems Science Conference
		Hydrodynamics, salinity and water quality in Florida Bay are affected by exchanges with the Southwest Florida Shelf and the Gulf of Mexico across the bay’s western boundary and by exchanges with the Atlantic Ocean through Keys’ passes.
		All scientists working in Florida Bay are strongly encouraged to submit abstracts describing their research projects and current status.
		Florida Bay scientists not wishing to make oral presentations are strongly encouraged to prepare posters and submit an abstract.
	conference.ifas.ufl.edu /FloridaBay (3854 words)

	Florida Keys Vacation Rentals - Bay Front Properties For Rent By The Week, Month Or Season
		This bay front home sits on one of the most beautiful sandy bottom bay's in the upper keys.
		One of the bedrooms and baths are on the ground level with a separate entrance to the main house.
		Many of the 2 bedroom, 1.5 bath condominium and townhouse units are located directly on the Bay, while others are neatly snuggled along the deep-water canals located throughout the resort property.
	www.floridakeysrentalstore.com /bayfront.htm (934 words)

	Bay Area church of Christ, Tampa Bay Area, Florida
		Bay Area church of Christ serves about 525 members, and has many ministries and programs, including an active Campus Ministry (CIA - Christians In Action) at USF and Hillsborough Community College, a Youth Ministry that reaches more than 15 area high schools, and a Lads to Leaders/Leaderettes program for children in third through twelfth grades.
		Bay Area church of Christ also offers many Small Group bible studies, which meet at various times and locations throughout the Bay Area during the week, as well as an active Singles Ministry (SinglePurpose), which meets a few times each month for Christian fun and fellowship.
		Our primary purpose at Bay Area church of Christ is to Glorify God, to bring others to Jesus Christ, and to edify each member, teaching the Word of God and living the truth in love.
	www.bayareachurch.org (284 words)

	Flats Fishing \| Florida Fishing
		In the strictest sense, it is an expedition north from the Keys into the wilderness of uninhabited Keys and mangrove shorelines of Florida Bay.
		The term "backcountry fishing" is also used in a broader sense to cover the various types of fishing done by a backcountry guide, including fishing the flats and channels in the nearby waters of the inhabited Keys.
		The Florida Keys backcountry fishing guide is a truly colorful subject; an intriguing blend of knowledge, determination, and enthusiasm (allowing for the occasional gesture of despair).
	www.fishfloridabay.com (1264 words)

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