Florida Manatee Census Counts

Date of Survey	Total Count
Jan 23-24, 1991	1,267
Feb 17-18, 1992	1,465
Jan 17-18, 1992	1.856
Jan 21-22, 1995	1,443
Feb 6.7, 1995	1,822
Jan 9-10, 1996	2,274
Feb 18.19, 1996	2,639
Jan 19-20, 1997	2,229
Feb 13, 1997	1,709
Jan 29-30, 1998	2,022
Jan 6, 1999	1,873
Feb 23, 1999	2,034
Mar 6, 1999	2,353
Jan 16, 2000	1,629
Jan 27, 2000	2,222
Jan 2001	3,276
Mar 2002	1,796

Manatee Deaths by Year/Category

YEAR	WTRCRFT	LCK/GT	OTHER	NAT	UNKNWN	PERINTL*	TOTAL
1976	10	3	0	1	32	16 (1)	62
1977	13	6	5	1	79	11 (1)	115
1978	21	9	1	3	40	10	84
1979	22	8	8	4	24	12 (3)	78
1980	15	8	2	6	19	15 (1)	65
1981	23	2	4	9	65	14 (1)	117
1982	19	3	2	40	37	16 (1)	117
1983	15	7	5	6	3	18	81
1984	33	3	1	24	41	28 (1)	130
1985	35	3	3	20	39	23	123
1986	31	3	1	13	47	30 (2)	125
1987	37	5	3	15	23	34 (3)	117
1988	43	7	3	22	25	34 (1)	134
1989	50	3	4	32	45	42 (2)	176
1990	49	3	4	71	41	46	214
1991	52	9	6	15	39	54 (1)	175
1992	38	5	6	21	49	48	167
1993	34	6	7	24	36	40 (1)	147
1994	50	16	5	37	40	46	194
1995	43	8	5	35	55	57	203
1996	59	10	1	118	164	64 (1)	416
1997	52	8	8	46	67	65 (4)	246
1998	66	9	6	23	85	54 (1)	243
1999	83	15	7	43	69	57 (1)	274
2000	78	7	9	51	70	58	273
2001	81	1	7	33	108	33	325
TOTAL	1052	167	113	713	1369	925 (26)	4401

Manatee Mortality Database

The manatee mortality database is now available on the web site of the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission's Florida Marine Research Institute (FMRI). In addition to the monthly mortality tables already available on the web site, the new database enables the user to search for manatee mortality information by county, cause of death and date from 1974 through 2001. Two report formats are available: A 'summary' report which lists the search results in a numbers-only table, and an 'individual' report which provides more detailed information such as sex, size, region and cause of death. You can find the new manatee mortality search on the FMRI web site at https://myfwc.com/research/manatee/rescue-mortality-response/statistics/mortality/