Miami-Dade Commission approves boat show traffic over manatee safety

Damn the manatees!

That’s basically what the Miami-Dade Commission said on Wednesday when it approved the Miami International Boat Show’s application to increase the number of boat slips by about a third to almost 1,000 and have “sea trials” — kind of like test drives for boats — in sensitive manatee nesting and feeding areas during their five-day event in downtown this January.

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