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With Florida Keys water temperatures already beginning to creep up significantly, coral restoration groups have begun mapping out plans to deal with the possibility of a second straight year of massive coral bleaching.
Last summer, corals throughout in the Keys and South Florida experienced one of the most devastating bleaching events in decades, which led to significant mortality in elkhorn and staghorn species. Coral restoration groups, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary raced to save coral outplants and store them in coral banks on land and in deeper water nurseries.
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