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

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 ...

Clumps of the brownish seaweed known as sargassum have long washed up on Caribbean ... harmful algal blooms“ because they can cause fish kills, beach fouling, tourism losses and even coastal ...

As someone who’s lived in Mexico since 2018, I wrote this article to help you avoid the Cancun beaches seaweed issue, so that you have a nice vacation. I’ve personally visited Cancun numerous ...

The brownish looking seaweed variety is called sargassum and is flooding the shores of South Florida this year. There aren’t many seasons in South Florida. The wet season. The dry season.

Dennis McGillicuddy fished with his grandfather in the waters off the coast of Miami, he said they looked for sargassum–because seaweed was ... we would find the fish,” he told NBC6 Thursday ...

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 ...

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, ...