The goop, called marine mucilage or "sea snot," is covering so much of the coastline along the Sea of Marmara that people can no longer fish there. The sea snot formations can get up to 100 feet ...

"Hopefully, we will save our seas from this mucilage calamity," President Erdogan said. "Sea snot", or marine mucilage, is a naturally-occurring green sludge that forms when algae is overloaded ...