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The largest mangrove restoration project in Florida history is completed on Fruit Farm Creek in the Rookery Bay Reserve.

A hardhead catfish swims in a holding bucket pre-surgery The largest mangrove restoration project in Florida history was recently completed on Fruit Farm Creek in the Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. While the project is widely recognized as a win for the trees, the reserve managers wanted to know, What do the fish think? Rookery Bay Reserve partnered with NCCOS to find out.