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The Sargasso Sea is a large patch of ocean that is named after a species of free-floating seaweed called Sargassum. Unlike other types of algae found in the ocean, Sargassum is unique in that it is a holopelagi, which means that the seaweed not only floats freely around the ocean but also reproduces on the surface of the water.
The Sargasso Sea provides invaluable spawning habitat for endangered anguillid eels and is a pupping location for the endangered Porbeagle shark. The Sargasso Sea also acts as a migratory corridor for various species of sharks, rays, whales, and dolphins. The high seas account for approximately half of the world’s ocean.
Jun 28, 2023 · 28 June 2023. By Sarah Griffiths,Features correspondent. Getty Images. Enormous clumps of sargassum wash onto beaches in Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico (Credit: Getty Images) The world's...
The Sargasso Sea is a spawning site for threatened and endangered eels , as well as white marlin and dolphinfish. Humpback whales annually migrate through the Sargasso Sea. Commercial fish, such as tuna, and birds also migrate through the Sargasso Sea and depend on it for food.
The Sargasso Sea, part of the vast whirlpool known as the North Atlantic gyre, often has been described as an oceanic desert—and it would appear to be, if it weren’t for the floating mats of...
As a living laboratory, the Sargasso Sea—with its masses of sargassum and their cargoes of lilliputian creatures—has yielded important findings about how and why the ocean matters to...
Mar 14, 2014 · March 14, 2014. • 8 min read. Five countries signed an agreement this week committing to the protection of the Sargasso Sea, which occupies a vast stretch of the North Atlantic Ocean around...
