When waves of sargassum - a type of seaweed - washed up on Eastern Caribbean shores seven years ago, people hoped it was a one-off. Matted piles swamped coastlines from Tobago to Anguilla.
Larger creatures such as fish and turtles find plenty to eat amid the sargassum, and they attract bigger predators—triggerfish, tripletails, filefish, mahi-mahis, and jacks, on up the chain of ...
A floating mass of seaweed stretching from West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico is now the biggest seaweed bloom in the world, according to satellite observations. The algal explosion in the Atlantic ...
says that while the sargassum washing up in normal amounts has long been good for the Caribbean, severe influxes like those seen lately are ``harmful algal blooms“ because they can cause fish ...
Seaweed Sedan Mountains of brown, sludgy sargassum, an invasive species of seaweed, have rendered popular beaches in the ...
Certain fish and the Bermuda Triangle are linked in ... Located within the Atlantic, the sea is known for its abundance of shimmering Sargassum seaweed which has earned it the nickname “golden ...