dc.contributor.author | Hinds, Catrina | |
dc.contributor.author | Oxenford, Hazel | |
dc.contributor.author | Cumberbatch, Janice | |
dc.contributor.author | Fardin, Frédérique | |
dc.contributor.author | Doyle, Emma | |
dc.contributor.author | Cashman, Adrian | |
dc.coverage.spatial | Caribbean Sea | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-04-11T20:50:56Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-04-11T20:50:56Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Hinds, C.; Oxenford, H.; Cumberbatch, J.; Fardin, F.; Doyle, E. and Cashman, A. (2016) Golden Tides: Management Best Practices for Influxes of Sargassum in the Caribbean with a Focus on Clean-up. Barbados, Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies (CERMES), The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, 17pp. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-786 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11329/1271 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-786 | |
dc.description.abstract | The purpose of this management brief is to enable government officials, coastal managers,
beach caretakers and coastal residents to get ahead of the “golden tides” by providing up-to-date
information on the recent ‘sargassum
influxes’ (arrival of unprecedented
mass quantities of sargassum seaweed)
in the Caribbean region; and, importantly, by offering guidance on
how best to sustainably manage the
seaweed, based on lessons learnt to
date. This first brief focuses on the
immediate problem of clean-up, after
mass strandings of the weed. Others
will be developed that focus on
potential commercial uses of the weed
and on adaptation measures suitable for fishers and other vessel operators. This is all part of the
on-going efforts by The University of the West Indies and a number of other institutions in the
Wider Caribbean to actively research and understand this new phenomenon and develop
solutions. In 2011, the shores of several Caribbean islands and West African countries were inundated by
unprecedented quantities of pelagic sargassum. Since then, influxes of this golden-brown
seaweed have become a recurrent event in both the Caribbean Sea and West Africa, with
observers in these regions reporting levels reaching a critical high in 2015. These influxes have
given rise to a number of serious socio-ecological and economic concerns, particularly in the
hospitality and fisheries sectors. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies (CERMES), The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Sargassum | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Seaweed | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Management | |
dc.title | Golden Tides: Management Best Practices for Influxes of Sargassum in the Caribbean with a Focus on Clean-up. | en_US |
dc.title.alternative | CERMES Management Brief | |
dc.type | Report | en_US |
dc.description.status | Published | en_US |
dc.format.pages | 17pp. | en_US |
dc.description.refereed | Refereed | en_US |
dc.publisher.place | Barbados | en_US |
dc.subject.parameterDiscipline | Parameter Discipline::Biological oceanography::Macroalgae and seagrass | en_US |
dc.description.currentstatus | Current | en_US |
dc.description.sdg | 14.2 | en_US |
dc.description.eov | Macroalgal canopy cover and composition | en_US |
dc.description.bptype | Best Practice | en_US |
dc.description.bptype | Manual (incl. handbook, guide, cookbook etc) | en_US |
obps.resourceurl.publisher | https://www.cavehill.uwi.edu/cermes/getdoc/123bf91c-1565-414d-8e21-e59fb6f7ca2d/cermes_sargassum_management_brief_2016_08_24.aspx | en_US |