Dozens of residents gathered at the Blake Library in Martin County to fight for the Oculina Bank, a rare deep-water coral reef located just off the coast of Fort Pierce. The community meeting came after a federally appointed council voted to roll back longstanding protections for the reef, which is found nowhere else on Earth. The reef
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