Seaweed

(Loop News) A 5,000-mile seaweed belt lurking in the Atlantic Ocean is expected in the next few months to wash onto beaches in the Caribbean Sea, South Florida, and the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. [youtube…
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Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary-General, Dr. Carla Barnett, has praised the youth innovation and Caribbean ingenuity that has driven the transition of sargassum from a hazard and a nuisance, to a resource with several commercial…
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Saint Lucian Johanan Dujon is on the Forbes 30 Under 30 2020 list in manufacturing and industry. Johanan, 26, founded the Caribbean's first indigenous agriculture biotech firm, Algas Organics, which converts invasive seaweed, sargassum…
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(Jamaica Gleaner) Against the background of recent concerns raised by Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett about the impending invasion of sargassum being a threat to the tourism industry, marine scientist Dr. Karl Aiken has a suggestion.…
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(Trinidad Guardian) Fish­er­men who ply their trade in the At­lantic Ocean, off the south-east coast of Trinidad, say the re­turn of the sar­gas­sum sea­weed is af­fect­ing their abil­i­ty to catch fish. A large amount of the sea­weed…
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