Tampa Bay Aquatic Preserves and Office of Resilience and Coastal Protection leadership worked with the Division of Recreation and Parks to solicit public input on the Terra Ceia Aquatic Preserve Management Plan revision simultaneously with the revision of the adjacent Terra Ceia Preserve State Park Management Plan.

Wekiva River Aquatic Preserve staff recently joined Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission staff for the first documented release of the water hyacinth leafhopper (Megamelus scutellaris), a federally approved biological control agent used to help manage invasive water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) populations on the Wekiva River.