Red Sargasso alert on beaches from eight municipalities of Quintana Roo

Mexico City.- The authorities of eight municipalities in the state of Quintana Roocoastal destination with paradisiacal beaches that receives more than 20 million tourists a year, they put themselves on alert to combat the Massive arrival of sargassum to the Mexican Caribbean, a big problem that is affecting other Caribbean coastsThe presence of this macroalga shot down the coasts of Cancun, Northern Puerto Morelos, Playa del Carmen, Tulum and a Mahahual Strip to Xcalakin the south of Quintana Roo. The authorities launched a plan for the containment, collection and final disposal of the sargassum in the Mexican Caribbean to assemble the images disseminated by the Mexican authorities show how the massive volumes of Sargzo produced in recent days what is known as Brown tide, staining both the water on the shore and the sea inside. The Secretary of the Navy indicated in a press release that an estimated total of 77 tons touch the coasts in four different locations In the next few days. “Sargazo is one of the great challenges environmental and economic for our state“, He said in his account of X Mara Lezama, governor of the state of Quintana Roo.” We have collected So far this year 24,000 tons of sargasso; We have, as you know, an oceanic ship. We have this identification where these huge sargasso spots are going; 11 ships, such as sergaceras, 22 minor vessels and more than 500 elements of the navy, ”said Lezama.es that is why the authorities decided to install the Sargazo 2025 strategy table at the state level, whose purpose is to articulate a protocol “with clear and forceful actions” To face this situation, the governor added. The protocol includes a system of Early alert and satellite monitoring To get ahead of the arrival of the sargass, macro cleansing Coordinated, immediate technical and financial response, responsible collection and final disposition of the algae, and evaluation, communication and transparency to inform the citizen 13 maritime unitsamong which are sargon ships, minor vessels and containment barriers (a total of 7545 meters strategically distributed in several beaches) that allow to collect sargassum in the open sea before they reach the coasts. According to the Mexican government, it already showed Positive results in the reduction and containment of sargassum in coastal areas such as Isla women, Benito Juárez, Puerto Morelos, Cozumel and Tulum.Alicia Bárcena Ibarra, head of the Environment and Natural Resources, said at a press conference last week that a Research of the reason for which he is arriving so much sargassum to the silver. “60,000 tons of sargass arrive a year, in the most difficult years, and this will be one”he said. The arrival of Sargazo could overcome this year The historical maximum of the 522,226 tons who arrived in 2018. In Playa del Carmen, the Secretary of the Environment and Climate Change, Samantha Álvarez, commented that an average of an average of 8000 tons of sargazo From March until now. The operation to face the sargazo has deployed a total of 13 maritime units “never is 100 % clean. What we do is mitigate the problem to prevent it from sorry and continue affecting the visitor's experience. We ask the tourist not to scare, it is a natural algae, it comes and goes. One day there may be, another day. It all depends on the climate, ”said Álvarez. In some areas of Mexico, the beaches have been eroded by algae and the heavy machinery used to eliminate them, and many fishermen complain that daily fishing has decreased drastically. Thermal anomalies of up to three degrees. “We are seeing tropical seas that are warming up, are eutrophicizing, and that is the perfect breeding ground for sargasso It is developed exponentially, ”he explained. According to researchers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico is reheated more than the average planet. It is that from the pre -industrial period at 2024 the temperature in the country has risen in 1.8 °, “that is, we have warmed ourselves more than the average of the planet and the heating rate is larger,” according to experts. A study of 2021 published in the scientific journal Climate Change Ecology, which analyzed the situation in three bays of Quintana Roo, found that under the estate estters of Sargazo, Light filtration decreases to 73% and water temperature can be up to five warmer Celsius degreesIn so much, the record levels of Sargazo reached other coasts of the Caribbean. Brown and thorny algae are Suffocating the coast from Puerto Rico to Guyana And beyond, interrupting tourism, killing wildlife and even releasing Toxic gases that forced a school on the French island of the Caribbean, Martinica, to temporarily close them. 38 million algae metric tons It is the largest amount that has been recorded in the Caribbean Sea, in the Western and Eastern Atlantic and in the Gulf of Mexico since the scientists began to study the large Sargassum belt of the Atlantic in 2011, said Brian Barnes, an assistant research professor at the University of Southern Florida, which worked in the report published Monday by the Optical Oceanography Laboratory of the University of the South of Florida. Punta Santiago and the Paseo Marítimo surrounded by Sargazo in Humacao, Puerto Rico, on Monday, June 2, 2025.Alejandro Granadillo – Ap“The peaks seem to continue getting bigger year after year”he said that large groups of algae in the open ocean are what Barnes called a “healthy and happy ecosystem” for creatures that go from small shrimp to in danger of extinction, The sargassum near or on the coast can cause ravages.Can Block sunlight That coral reefs need to survive, and if algae sink, they can suffocate the reefs and marine meadows. Once it reaches the coast, creatures living in algae die or are captured by birds, Barnes explained.AP and Diario Agency The country