{"id":31400,"date":"2018-08-08T17:42:32","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T17:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=31400"},"modified":"2018-08-08T18:09:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T18:09:40","slug":"sargassum-the-seaweed-deluge-hitting-caribbean-shores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2018\/08\/sargassum-the-seaweed-deluge-hitting-caribbean-shores\/","title":{"rendered":"Sargassum: The Seaweed Deluge Hitting Caribbean Shores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>When waves of sargassum &#8211; a type of seaweed &#8211; washed up on Eastern Caribbean shores seven years ago, people hoped it was a one-off. Matted piles swamped coastlines from Tobago to Anguilla. Reported by<\/em> BBC <em>News.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 2011 it was the first time we&#8217;d seen it,&#8221; says Professor Hazel Oxenford, an expert in fisheries biology and management at the University of the West Indies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It came as a complete shock and no-one had a clue what to do with it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Three years later the seaweed returned, in larger quantities. Over several months, it made its way through the Caribbean to southern Mexico, where its impact on Cancun&#8217;s beaches made international headlines.<\/p>\n<p>Now it is happening again and everything suggests 2018 could be the worst year yet.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mail.cruisingcompass.com\/t\/r-i-jjjjfhk-l-jd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When waves of sargassum &#8211; a type of seaweed &#8211; washed up on Eastern Caribbean shores seven years ago, people hoped it was a one-off. Matted piles swamped coastlines from Tobago to Anguilla. Reported by BBC News. &nbsp; &#8220;In 2011 it was the first time we&#8217;d seen it,&#8221; says Professor Hazel Oxenford, an expert in fisheries biology and management at the University of the West Indies. &#8220;It came as a complete shock and no-one had a clue what to do with it.&#8221; Three years later the seaweed returned, in larger quantities. Over several months, it made its way through the Caribbean to southern Mexico, where its impact on Cancun&#8217;s beaches made international headlines. Now it is happening again and everything suggests 2018 could be the worst year yet.\u00a0Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":31432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31402,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31400\/revisions\/31402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}