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北大西洋の海流図（1943年）。. 中央の海流に囲まれた部分がサルガッソ海. サルガッソ海 （サルガッソかい、Sargasso Sea）は、 メキシコ湾流 、 北大西洋海流 、 カナリア海流 、大西洋赤道海流に囲まれた海域であり、北緯25度 - 35度・西経40度 - 70度に存在し ...
May 1, 2017 · Named after Sargassum, a species of seaweed that covers the area ’s waters, the Sargasso Sea is the only sea without shores or coastlines. Instead of being bounded by land, it is defined by four ...
Sargassum is a genus of large brown seaweed (a type of algae) that floats in island-like masses. These floating rafts can stretch for miles across the ocean, serving as habitat that provides food, refuge, and breeding grounds for an array of animals such as fishes, sea turtles, marine birds, crabs, shrimp, and more.
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 everyone ...
Mar 14, 2014 · The new nonbinding agreement on the Sargasso, called the Hamilton Declaration, is a first for the high seas. Nations are entitled to govern the ocean 200 miles (322 kilometers) out from their ...
