The seaweed in turn is nourished by the excrement of these organisms. Larger creatures such as fish and turtles find plenty to eat amid the sargassum, and they attract bigger predators ...

According to the January 2025 sargassum update, residents and visitors across the Virgin Islands may soon begin to notice an ...

Sargassum seaweed is a brown macroalgae that can be ... shade and shelter to fish, crabs and turtles. It may also serve as fertilizers for sand dunes, protects shoreline stability, and is a ...

“Our objective was to find sargassum, because if we could find a weed line of sargassum, that meant we would find the fish,” he told ... commonly called seaweed, on the ocean’s surface.

Last year, a blob of sargassum seaweed overtook Florida's beaches "like ... toxic algae known as red tide can leave the shores littered with dead fish, making a trip to the beach a total stinker.

Tons of sargassum — seaweed — is floating far out in the Atlantic Ocean. It could begin coming ashore in the spring.

You can expect a “major” year for seaweed ... 7 turtles in a trophy fish’s belly The reason for the spike seems to be a phenomenon known as the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt (GASB), a ...

A supercapacitor made from sargassum seaweed nanofibers powers medical devices inside the body, kills bacteria, and naturally ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Millions of tons of sargassum wash up on beaches across North America every year. Exposure can lead to breathing problems, and it costs millions to clean it up.

Out of the nearly 800 species of seaweed in India, sargassum is the most abundant species available and the focus for D’Cruz and Chaitanya Chowgule, The Good Ocean’s head of operations.

Already this year, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission ... Lab has warned 2025 is expected to be a "major sargassum year." We've gathered the latest test results and health ...