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Letter to the editor

Gov. Crist tells marina users how to keep it clean

By RITA FARLOW, Times Staff Writer
Published August 17, 2007

Fishermen, from left, Tom Sprague, of Palm Harbor, Curtis Lykins, of Oldsmar, and Tucker Reese, of Clearwater, show off their quarry, an eight-foot-long, 130-pound sailfish to Florida Governor Charlie Crist at the Clearwater Marina. Crist was meeting with Florida Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Michael W. Sole for a press conference regarding the Clean Marina program.
	[Douglas R. Clifford | Times]

125 Environmental measures a marina must comply with to be named a Clean Marina.

145 Clean Marinas statewide.

18,000 Wet slips at Florida's Clean Marinas.

2,269 Wet slips at Pinellas Clean Marinas.

2,073 Dry slips at Pinellas Clean Marinas.

1M+ Registered vessels in Florida.

Gov. Charlie Crist came to the Clearwater Municipal Marina on Thursday to promote Florida's Clean Boating Partnership. To be named a Clean Marina (like Clearwater's and 13 others in Pinellas), a facility must comply with environmental regulations, work to educate boaters about environmentally friendly policies and practices, and make sure the water is kept free of oil, sewage and litter. All Floridians should become stewards of the environment, said Crist, a boat owner, adding, "It's like all hands on deck."

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