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Where Does Our Sargassum Seaweed Come From?
Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 2:15 pm
by bigfost
I found this and thought y'all might be interested.
http://www.marlinmag.com/article.jsp?ID=17095" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Where Does Our Sargassum Seaweed Come From?
Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 2:53 pm
by Longshotjames
Neat, Good read Thanks for posting!
Longshot
Re: Where Does Our Sargassum Seaweed Come From?
Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 2:54 pm
by peterpan
Thanks for the info. Good to have some knowledge sometimes...
Re: Where Does Our Sargassum Seaweed Come From?
Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 4:11 pm
by Chief Brody
Yakke-T and I went down to the beach a couple of weeks ago when there was quite a bit of it on shore, and she showed me something - we would grab a big chunk of it and take to the waters edge and shake it out - lots of interesting things live in that stuff, including sargassum crabs, sargassum shrimp and the most interesting for me, sargassum fish - which look a lot like a lion fish. We found a container and were able to bring some of it back to her facility, some of the shrimp and crabs are still doing pretty well.
The fish are fascinating looking -
Re: Where Does Our Sargassum Seaweed Come From?
Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 4:48 pm
by bigfost
Chief Brody wrote:Yakke-T and I went down to the beach a couple of weeks ago when there was quite a bit of it on shore, and she showed me something - we would grab a big chunk of it and take to the waters edge and shake it out - lots of interesting things live in that stuff, including sargassum crabs, sargassum shrimp and the most interesting for me, sargassum fish - which look a lot like a lion fish. We found a container and were able to bring some of it back to her facility, some of the shrimp and crabs are still doing pretty well.
The fish are fascinating looking -
Another thing about the Sargassum fish is that they are basically tame. My wife and I came across some on Dauphin Island a few years ago that were fairly large - about the size of my hand. We were in the water with them and could pet and handle them without them swimming away at all.
Re: Where Does Our Sargassum Seaweed Come From?
Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 9:23 am
by saltykat
we would grab a big chunk of it and take to the waters edge and shake it out - lots of interesting things live in that stuff, including sargassum crabs, sargassum shrimp and the most interesting for me, sargassum fish
I have seen both redfish and sheepies plucking a meal from the floating mats before
Re: Where Does Our Sargassum Seaweed Come From?
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 6:44 pm
by northpaw
Cool article Jim. Thanks.
Re: Where Does Our Sargassum Seaweed Come From?
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 9:06 pm
by isubarui
Interesting read for sure.
Re: Where Does Our Sargassum Seaweed Come From?
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 8:55 am
by bass-a-holic
Seahorses that live in that stuff too, they're tiny and hard to spot.