Maintenance of seawater intakes
Photo Credit: Mote Marine Laboratory
Mote Marine Laboratory's west intake pipe from the New Pass dock, Sarasota Bay August 3, 2000. No specimens clearly visible on the outside of the intake pipe.  The inside of the intake end of this pipe was scraped approximately 6 inches in. One 1.7 mm (0.07 inch) Perna viridis was found.  It was beige with golden concentric zig-zag markings.