Experts predict that this macroalgae season will end in October without major impacts for Quintana Roothe northern area is free, only a little has arrived Tulum, Cozumel, Mahahualthe Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve.
It has been the summer with the lowest sargassum arrival since the macroalgae began to affect the Quintana Roo coastal strip in 2013, said Esteban Jesús Amaro Mauricio, director of the Sargassum Monitoring Network.
The hydrobiologist explained that the distribution and abundance in percentage of the thallophyte has moved to the north of the continent, towards the height of the Lesser Antilles arc, there was a significant deviation of the current in the Caribbean and the entire plant was taken to Barbados, Martinique, Dominica, Grenada, Puerto Rico, Haiti, the Dominican Republic; a little also reaches Cuba and even goes to affect Florida.
For the rest of the season “we are going to have very little sargasso at a sporadic rate and in very localized points, at the beginning of April it began to arrive and increased somewhat in May and June were the two strong months to say the least, because they were not even remotely the quantities we were used to seeing in previous years and in July it stopped coming to date, or it is relatively little, and possibly by mid-September we will stop seeing the macroalgae until next year,” he said.
MEETING WITH MARINA
The governor of Quintana Roo, Mara Lezama Espinosamet with the Secretary of the Navy, Rafael Ojeda Durán, to review key projects in the comprehensive care of sargassum, among which the presentation of a ship stood out sargacero 15 meters long, with a beam of 5.5 meters that will facilitate efficient collection of marine plants with a capacity of 20 tons.
According to the president, the coastal vessel will be ready in four months and will be equipped with a collection belt and a crane to handle 2.6 tons of weight.
The secretary of Environment, Lourdes Varguez, He revealed that countries such as Japan, Germany, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Estonia and Brazil have shown interest in the sargassum management techniques developed in Solidaridad, especially in Playa del Carmen.
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