Larger creatures such as fish and turtles find plenty to eat amid the sargassum, and they attract bigger predators—triggerfish, tripletails, filefish, mahi-mahis, and jacks, on up the chain of ...

Researchers identified a strong negative North Atlantic Oscillation in 2009--2010 as the tipping point that pushed sargassum into the tropical Atlantic, confirming vertical mixing, not rivers ...

But juvenile fish of all kinds can be found within sargassum floats, including flying fish, triggerfish, plane head filefish, amberjacks, and tuna. Sargassum provides food and protection to all ...

Sargassum in the western Caribbean Sea and ... more than double the amount detected during a given year. The exact trigger of the seaweed is somewhat unknown, with experts pointing to fertilizer ...