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Chemistry & Physics Building 1990, Hurricanes Miami Florida Business directory Continental shelves in the Atlantic are wide off Newfoundland southern-most South America and north-eastern Europe in the western Atlantic carbonate platforms dominate large areas for example the Blake Plateau and Bermuda Rise the Atlantic is surrounded by passive margins except at a few locations where active margins form deep trenches: the Puerto Rico Trench (8,376 m or 27,480 ft maximum depth) in the western Atlantic and South Sandwich Trench (8,264 m or 27,113 ft) in the South Atlantic There are numerous submarine canyons off north-eastern North America western Europe and north-western Africa Some of these canyons extend along the continental rises and farther into the abyssal plains as deep-sea channels. 12 Sister cities Recently the City of Miami along with the Downtown Development Authority has begun bicycle initiaves promoting citywide bike parking and bike lanes that have made bicycling much more popular for residents Bike lanes and bike sharrows are currently planned for the majority of Downtown streets to be painted by the end of 2010 the Venetian Causeway is a popular bicycle commuter route that connects South Beach to Downtown the Rickenbacker Causeway is very popular on weekends for recreational bicyclists and often bicycles can outnumber cars on the causeway, In 1497 John Cabot became the first Western European since the Vikings to explore mainland North America and one of his major discoveries was the abundant resources of Atlantic cod off Newfoundland Referred to as "Newfoundland Currency" this discovery yielded some 200 million tons of fish over five centuries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries new fisheries started to exploit haddock mackerel and lobster From the 1950s to the 1970s the introduction of European and Asian distant-water fleets in the area dramatically increased the fishing capacity and number of exploited species it also expanded the exploited areas from near-shore to the open sea and to great depths to include deep-water species such as redfish Greenland halibut witch flounder and grenadiers Overfishing in the area was recognised as early as the 1960s but because this was occurring on international waters it took until the late 1970s before any attempts to regulate was made in the early 1990s this finally resulted in the collapse of the Atlantic northwest cod fishery the population of a number of deep-sea fishes also collapsed in the process including American plaice redfish and Greenland halibut together with flounder and grenadier. .

. Law and government Average relative humidity (%) 74.6 73.0 70.7 68.3 70.7 75.3 74.7 76.2 77.6 76.6 75.6 75.4 74.1 11 External links Non-Hispanic White 11% 57% 63% The Everglades Agricultural Area is a major center for agriculture the environmental impact of agriculture especially water pollution is a major issue in Florida today. South Florida Punk and Hardcore Places of worship, S?? Airlines and destinations Wolfsonian (Florida International University Miami Beach) In 1998 Democratic voters dominated areas of the state with a high percentage of racial minorities and transplanted white liberals from the northeastern United States known colloquially as "snowbirds" South Florida and the Miami metropolitan area are dominated by both racial minorities and white liberals Because of this the area has consistently voted as one of the most Democratic areas of the state the Daytona Beach area is similar demographically and the city of Orlando has a large Hispanic population which has often favored Democrats Republicans made up mostly of white conservatives have dominated throughout much of the rest of Florida particularly in the more rural and suburban areas This is characteristic of its voter base throughout the Deep South. ; On July 28 1896 the incorporation meeting to make Miami a city took place the right to vote was restricted to all men who resided in Miami or Dade County Joseph A McDonald Flagler's chief of construction on the Royal Palm Hotel was elected chairman of the meeting After ensuring that enough voters were present the motion was made to incorporate and organize a city government under the corporate name of "The City of Miami" with the boundaries as proposed John B Reilly who headed Flagler's Fort Dallas land company was the first elected mayor. . . In 1972 the state made personal injury protection auto insurance mandatory for drivers becoming the second in the nation to enact a no-fault insurance law the ease of receiving payments under this law is seen as precipitating a major increase in insurance fraud Auto insurance fraud was the highest in the nation in 2011 estimated at close to $1 billion Fraud is particularly centered in the Miami-Dade metropolitan and Tampa areas!