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Loss of fishing boats to Hurricane Beryl affecting demand for chicken in Barbados 11Oct2024
In Barbados Today, today: Officials say fish shortage driving increased demand for chicken. Some extracts: On Thursday, BEPPA board director Amir Juman said there were two main factors impacting the industry, which resulted in consumers being unable to source the … Continue reading
Barbados unveils “the world’s first vehicle powered by renewable natural gas (RNG) from Sargassum seaweed, rum distillery wastewater and Blackbelly sheep manure” 18Sep2024
This story has been brewing for a while, perhaps since the first waves of Sargassum hit the coast of Barbados! Yesterday (Sep 17), in a post on its Facebook Page, the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus posted … Continue reading
Sargassum Outlook 1Aug to 31Oct 2024 Severe
“Middle islands: Severe influxes and heavy coastal accumulations are expected over the next three months.” Read more in the Sargassum Sub-regional Outlook Bulletin by the Sargassum Team at The Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies (CERMES) at the Cave Hill Campus … Continue reading
Sargassum outlook Jan 1, 2024 – Apr 1, 2024: “mild to moderate ” 5Jan2024
See also Coral Bleaching page, re: high water temperatures/ coral bleaching summer-fall 2023 ————— Extracts from the latest Sargassum Sub-regional Outlook Bulletin: “Synopsis: Sargassum abundance in the Central Atlantic is increasing and approaching the Caribbean region.” “General outlook: Interests in the Eastern … Continue reading
Causative agent for die-off of long-spined sea urchin in 2022 identified 2May2023
The long-spined sea urchin (Diadema antillarum) is an important herbivore on Caribbean reefs. In 2022, there was a mass die-off of this sea urchin all over the Caribbean, echoing a similar die-off in the early 1980s. A paper reporting on … Continue reading
Sargassum blooms are here for the foreseeable future 15Mar2023
UPDATE May 3, 2023 Strange sighting among sargassum seaweed YouTube Video uploaded May 2, 2023. by Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation ——- ORIGINAL POST “A blob twice the width of the US is heading towards Florida’s coast” So reads the title of … Continue reading
Presumptive Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease on Vauxhall Reef & Environs (Barbados) 25Jan2023
UPDATE Feb 16, 2023: SCTLD or White Plague Disease? – we don’t yet know. Based on some discussion I had recently with an authority on this disease, it’s not clear right now whether SCTLD is present in Barbados or whether what … Continue reading
Disturbing news about cruise ships’ damage to coral reefs 23May2021
From Barbados Today, for May 21, 2021