From: USFW, 1982; USEPA, 1999 Apalachee Bay is located at the western extent of Florida's Big Bend coastline. Freshwater inputs into the estuary include the Ochlockonee, Sopchoppy, Wakulla, Wacissa, Aucilla, Enconfina and Fenholloway Rivers. The bay is in direct contact ...

From: NOAA, 2002; Wallace, 2003 Dry Tortugas is located 110 km west of Key West, Florida in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. It is elliptical, atoll-like, coral reef formation, approximately 27 km long and 12 km wide with shallow water ...

The Florida Keys are a chain of limestone islands that extend approximately 420 km (220 miles) in a southwesterly arc off the coast of South Florida, separating Florida Bay from the Straits of Florida. The Keys are island remnants of ...

From: NOAA, 2002 The Florida Middle Grounds is a 1,193 square km area in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, 137 km south of Apalachicola and 129 km northwest of Tarpoon Springs. The bank formations consist of two north-to-northwesterly parallel ridges ...

From: NOAA, 2002; Porter and Porter, 2002 The Florida Keys, a chain of islands running in a southwesterly arc off the coast of South Florida, are home to the Florida reefs, the third largest shallow water coral reefs in the ...

From: USFW, 1982; SRWMD, 2002; Florida DEP, 2003 The Suwannee River Basin contains almost 29,500 square km beginning in the Coastal Plain of Georgia near Cordele and flowing through much of north Florida before emptying into the eastern Gulf of ...