Barbados Seaweed 2025. Since 2011, massive, episodic influxes of floating sargassum seaweed inundating caribbean shorelines have manifested as an emergent coastal hazard and a recurring external shock to the systems of caribbean small island developing. Young barbadians have found uses for it in biofuel production for vehicles and.

In 2011, huge amounts of the seaweed entered. We know that floating pelagic sargassum seaweed, endemic to the north atlantic, naturally accumulates in the sargasso sea supporting large, biodiverse marine communities.