Sargassum seaweed

(Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism Press Release)—Sargassum seaweed influxes have been a bane to the Caribbean since 2011, but the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) and Plant & Food Research (PFR), a New Zealand…
Read More...

(CRFM Press Release)—The Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) and Plant & Food Research, a New Zealand Crown Research Institute, will host a virtual training workshop on Wednesday, 3 March 2021. The session—which will be…
Read More...

(Jamaica Observer) Jamaica will on Friday host a regional forum to address the influx of sargassum in the Caribbean region. The forum, which is being spearheaded by the Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre (GTRCM), will…
Read More...

(Barbados Today Guest Column)The massive influx of sargassum seaweed to Caribbean waters since 2011 has had a number of negative touch points on the fisheries value chain, resulting in a catastrophic hit to the livelihoods of Caribbean…
Read More...

In retrospect, 2011 was just the first wave. That year, massive rafts of Sargassum—a brown seaweed that lives in the open ocean—washed up on beaches across the Caribbean, trapping sea turtles and filling the air with the stench of rotting…
Read More...