{"id":5229,"date":"2026-02-07T02:43:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T02:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/?page_id=5229"},"modified":"2026-02-10T19:24:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T19:24:38","slug":"sargassum-weed","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/obs-iii-bath\/sargassum-weed\/","title":{"rendered":"Sargassum weed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0 major change at Bath when I conducted surveys there in 2015, compared to my last previous visit, in 2011: massive accumualations of Sargassum weed on shore and a thick floating mat of Sargassum weed from shore to about 50 m from shore. As well, even over &#8216;the platform&#8217; further out, water was green, presumably from decomposing Sargassum\/stimulation of planktonic algae.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5232\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMGP4691.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5232\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5232\" src=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMGP4691-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMGP4691-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMGP4691-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMGP4691-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5232\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At Bath, looking north, Apr 6, 2015<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_5233\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/MICR0234.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5233\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5233\" src=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/MICR0234-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/MICR0234-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/MICR0234-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking seaward over edge of &#8220;the platform, Apr\u00a0 8, 2015<\/p><\/div>\n<p>View Lit&amp;Links\/<a href=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/lit-links\/sargassum\/\">Sargassum<\/a> for info about Sargassum weed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0 major change at Bath when I conducted surveys there in 2015, compared to my last previous visit, in 2011: massive accumualations of Sargassum weed on shore and a thick floating mat of Sargassum weed from shore to about 50 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/obs-iii-bath\/sargassum-weed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3179,"menu_order":50,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5229","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5229"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5717,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5229\/revisions\/5717"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}