Investigators have been able to determine that the biggest of the annual Sargassum Weed invasion in the Caribbean since 2011 occurred last year.
In July 2018 a “carpet” stretched out 8,850 kilometres over the water surface, from West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico, with a biomass of 20 million tons. Scientists now refer to the natural phenomenon as the “Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt” (GASB).
