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Died in southwest florida, from all causes. that was the worst year ever. so far this year, less than three months in, nearly 200 manatees have died from one cause. it's called red tide. for wildlife biologists, this was one of the best days in a long time. >> there's two noses up behind us. right at that corner. >> reporter: boyd was out with florida wildlife officers on the orange river near ft. myers looking for sick or dead manatees. and endangered species. none so far. a hopeful sign after a brutal start to the year. >> the number of mortalities has exceeded anything i've seen in the past...

The next few days, the oil will arrive. and in fact, if you look -- i have priscilla who just came down to the beach. she lives about a mile from the beach. tell us what you found in your backyard. >> i went out to go fishing in my kayak and this was floating all over the place and it was getting in the grass beds and big clumps of it about a quarter of a mile. >> reporter: the fear here and talking to people out on the beach and the business owner here, they think it's a matter of time before this beach will either shut down or questions about whether it should be shut down. they think the oi...

Off to the west to do what it naturally does, to feed in the waters of the gulf of mexico, to nest on the far western coast of louisiana or even texas, but certainly they would not put it right back out in the oil slick and have a repeat performance of that trouble that they're having out there in the waves in the middle of the gulf of mexico. >> big job that is growing. reynolds wolf, thanks so much. meanwhile the oil spill could devastate a key industry off the coast. shrimp and oyster industries are especially vulnerable. >> you're not going to have shrimp. the kind of biggest deal right ...

Not a complete disaster and total wipeout of it just yet, but it keeps getting worse, how long will it take to recover from something like that under -- i don't want to say a worst case scenario but suppose it gets pretty bad and you say we don't have the sha rirch, how long to recover? >> under a worst case scenario and it's hard for me to say this out loud, oyster beds we're looking at potentially 20 years, maybe longer. shrimp beds and grasses, it just depends on how badly we decimate them. there are ways to protect our grasses and i assure you are everyone on our coast, everyone on louisia...

On their plate and not understanding where it comes from. what is the potential impact? what is it doing to that shrimp? what is it doing -- does that stuff just going to be no good anymore? i read an article people said, don't worry, you're not going to have oil on your shrimp. >> you're not going to have shrimp. not going to have it. the kind of biggest deal right now for us is when you cover the grass beds, that's where the shrimp are born. that's where they come and grow and live. we have had a cold winter so they're just now starting to come out. when the grasses are covered and buried, t...