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Project aimed at mending lagoon A mangrove stands near the shore of the Indian River Lagoon.
The postcard panoramas and legendary fishing opportunities that drew hundreds of thousands of newcomers to the lagoon region seemed to be its own undoing. Seagrass beds, the cradle of marine life, had dwindled. So had fish and shellfish populations. More than 75 percent of salt marsh and mangrove wetlands had been destroyed, altered or functionally isolated. These plans have identified primary threats to the lagoon, chiefly, the diversion of excess surface water drainage from both urban and agricultural lands to the lagoon and associated declines in water and sediment quality, along with the alteration and loss of critical wetland habitat.