The Secretary of the Navy (Semar) reviews that a complete of three,240 tons of sargassum have been collected off the coast of Quintana Roo within the final 15 days, 28% of the 11,840 tons gathered thus far this yr.
The giant portions reported by the Navy within the final two weeks correspond to the rise within the accumulation of algae floating on the excessive seas predicted by the University of Florida in its bulletin of April 30 this yr. They additionally coincide with the huge emergence of sargassum on Cancun seashores comparable to El Mirador.
In the weekly report throughout the morning convention of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, it was additionally reported that the Navy has deployed 12 vessels and a complete of 9,050 meters of limitations on the coast of Quintana Roo, in addition to one other 16 smaller vessels.
Severe arrival of sargassum is predicted
According to the University of South Florida, greater than 20 million tons of sargassum might accumulate this yr, of which no less than 5% would find yourself on the seashores of the Mexican Caribbean.
“Satellite images show that the arrival will be severe in 2023,” mentioned Rosa Elisa Rodríguez Martínez of the Academic Unit of Reef Systems in Puerto Morelos, in keeping with UNAM.
The educational additionally factors out within the examine, “Cleaning Costs of Pelagic Sargassum in Mexico,” that when analyzing knowledge on cleansing prices in three Quintana Roo municipalities (Puerto Morelos, Solidaridad and Tulum) and 5 lodges between Tulum and Cancun, the consequence was about $ 1.5 million per yr for every kilometer of shoreline.
“It’s burdensome because it involves containment at sea through barriers that cost between $300 and $500 dollars. It also requires boats, conveyors, machinery on the beach, maintenance of equipment, transport vehicles, places to deposit organic material to avoid polluting natural areas, and a high number of workers for each stretch of coastline,” Rodríguez Martínez mentioned.