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Sargasssum brings another ‘golden tide’ on our shorelines Rahanna Juman, Institute of Marine Affairs For yet another year, massive quantities of sargassum are seen washing up along our coasts and is causing concern among fisherfolk and other beach users. This new source of sargassum is now linked to climate change and ocean eutrophication, and these are likely to continue supporting significant sargassum blooms into the future. As such, annual mass influxes of sargassum into the Caribbean Sea are now being considered as the new normal, requiring sustainable management responses and long-term adaptation (Desrochers et al. 2020). Pelagic (free-floating) sargassum, a brown algae from the equatorial Atlantic, comprises a mixture of two or possibly three different sargassum species, namely sargassum fluitans III, sargassum natans I, and sargassum natans VIII (Schell, Goodwin, and Siuda 2015) that forms large floating mats often referred to as “golden tides.” These species are

Sargasso seaOceans generalUnited statesCaribbean seaBelize generalTrinidad and tobagoPanama cityAtlantic oceanHazel oxenfordAtlantic ocean desrochersRahanna jumanShelly ann coxVan tussenbroeckCentre for resource managementInstitute of marine affairsTechnical advisory committee