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 ...

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 ...

Seaweed Sedan Mountains of brown, sludgy sargassum, an invasive species of seaweed, have rendered popular beaches in the ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The sea is blanketed in a foul-smelling brownish-yellow, seaweed (called Sargassum) and has become ... as do tuna and other types of fish. It is also key to supporting the life cycle of a number ...

Sargassum floats near the water’s surface, while kelp is anchored to rocks on the ocean floor. Both of these types of algae feed and give shelter to other marine life, including fish, turtles, ...