sargasses

Effectiveness of sargassum barriers

How to assess the effectiveness of a sargassum barrier? Lying on the beach under the Caribbean sun, you have plenty of time to observe the barriers that your hotel or municipality has installed to protect your beach from massive arrivals of sargassum seaweed. You know these barriers are necessary to prevent an economic, health, and […]

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Is there still a Sargassum Season?

News / Christine J.

This is the question that more and more tourists are asking following announcements of the “End of Sargassum Season” in the press and social media, while images of invaded beaches are still circulating. But when is the “Sargassum Season” anyway? A search on the Internet reveals very different periods associated with the “Sargassum Season” in

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