Mexico and Spain launch Caribbean sargassum research initiative
Fieldwork in Mahahual involved 16 fishers and two tourism providers.
Event / data period: 2026-10-10
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Mexico’s Fisheries and Aquaculture Research Institute (IMIPAS) and Spain’s Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) launched a bilateral initiative on managing and sustainably using sargassum in the Mexican Caribbean. The work will examine distribution, coastal conditions and interactions with fisheries, tourism and maritime activity.
Fieldwork in Mahahual involved 18 local participants: 16 fishers and two tourism-service providers. The ministry said the project will combine field measurements with local fishers’ knowledge. It is a research and planning initiative; the announcement gave no measured quantity of sargassum collected.
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Participants in the Mahahual fieldwork
Breakdown of the 18 local participants reported by the source.
| Local participants | 18 | Mahahual |
| Fishers | 16 | Mahahual |
| Tourism-service providers | 2 | Mahahual |
Methodology
Counts are of local participants; they are not a measurement of sargassum biomass.
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