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MIAMI - To fish hatchery owner Paul Radice, the farmlands sandwiched between bustling Miami and the vast Everglades are ideal for his business.

The well water is unpolluted by parking-lot runoff and is the natural temperature for his tanks of exotic koi and African cichlids. Traffic is light and there are few strip malls or fast-food joints.

This landscape, the only subtropical farm region in the continental United States, is protected by a boundary line that was drawn two decades ago to keep development from pushing westward.