The brief outlines the causes and effects of sargassum influxes, presents a sargassum strategy framework, highlights the complexity in Caribbean transboundary coordination and outlines important sargassum stakeholders. It also offers guidelines for incorporating forecasting into policy and planning, Potential, Limitations, and Risks of sargassum blue growth, and outlines the enabling environment for sustainable sargassum blue growth.
CEP was established in 1981 as part of the Regional Seas Programme in recognition of the importance and value of the Wider Caribbean Region’s fragile and vulnerable coastal and marine ecosystems including endemic plants and animals.