Volume 68
Regional Cooperation to Face Sargassum Influx Around the Wider Caribbean
Authors
Fardin, F., J. Belmont, A. Fontaine, A. Vanzella-Khouri, and K. McDonald Gayle Download PDF Open PDF in BrowserOther Information
Date: November, 2015
Pages: 409 - 410
Event: Proceedings of the Sixty eigth Annual Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute
City: Panama City
Country: Panama
Abstract
Brown algae (class Phaeophyceae) from Sargassum genus form dense populations constituting free floating rafts on the ocean surface. Since 2011, proliferation of these holopelagic algae (Sargassum fluitans (Børgesen) Børgesen and Sargas-sum natans (Linnaeus) Gaillon) originally off the Sargasso sea, have been observed around the Caribbean region, including in locations where they were not previously found.