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Molasses reef is peppered with staghorn coral in this file photo showing efforts to restore coral to reefs off of Key Largo. Ross Boucek, a biologist for Bonefish Tarpon Trust, said scientists have worried that an extreme summer heat wave that pushed inshore temperatures above 100 degrees and bleached coral throughout the Keys could trigger other hazards. “We knew from the get go there would be weird stuff that happened afterwards.” (South Florida Sun Sentinel file photo)
More than a dozen endangered sawfish have turned up dead in the Lower Keys in recent weeks amid an unusual fish kill that has also included goliath grouper, tarpon, stingrays and dozens of other species found dead or behaving erratically.
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