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The beaches of Florida have become swamped with huge quantities of sargassum seaweed, with the majority of its Atlantic and eastern Gulf coasts seeing accumulations ranging from elevated to significantly above normal. State meteorologists say that while it\u2019s a tourism industry \u201ckiller,\u201d Florida politicians are doing little to address the crisis.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSargassum seaweed coverage has been brutal recently across parts of the Florida coast,\u201d posted<\/u> meteorologist Matt Devitt on Thursday. \u201cHappens every year, but still can be quite annoying.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reports have been emerging of a \u201ctsunami<\/u>\u201d of seaweed, which has been accumulating and rotting in massive piles, not only making beaches inaccessible but in many cases causing a wretched stench. While news outlets have noted beachgoers\u2019 annoyance at the issue, some have asserted that what begins as annoying could develop into a full-blown economic crisis. <\/p>\n

\u201cI’ve lived in South Florida since I was a kid, & there’s nothing normal about the breadth, depth and duration of sargassum weed choking beaches in recent years,\u201d posted<\/u> White House correspondent Marc Caputo, noting that the issue has also been plaguing the shores of Mexico. \u201cIt’s an economy killer for the tourism industry. Politicians aren’t talking about it enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sargassum is a dense, spongy seaweed that grows in large blooms that break free and drift atop the ocean, often accumulating in massive floating islands. When these islands of algae wash up on shore and amass, they begin to decay in the sun, releasing hydrogen sulfide gas, which smells much like rotten eggs. Beyond its stinky annoyance, another risk researchers have raised is the potential for the festering seaweed to act as a substrate for dangerous bacteria, such as \u201cvibrio<\/u>,\u201d which cause roughly 80,000 illnesses and 100 deaths in the U.S. each year.<\/p>\n

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While sargassum provides a vital habitat for marine life when on the open ocean, as it piles ashore, it not only hurts tourism, but can cost coastal communities millions of dollars as they try to clean it up. Experts say that the unusually large sargassum blooms are the result of rising ocean temperatures and the presence of more nutrients in the water, and the seaweed has become a growing problem for tourist-oriented beaches around the world. Currently, for example, 50 percent of the beaches near Cancun, Mexico, are on sargassum alert <\/u>as massive islands of the stuff have marred shores.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile in Florida, as communities race to bury or rake the sargassum back into the sea \u2014 which is practically the only solution \u2014 the mess is accumulating faster than they can remove it.<\/p>\n

According to Pompano Beach Commissioner Audrey Fesik, it is a “never-ending task of trying to stay ahead of mounting seaweed.\u201d He noted that within “12 hours it’s all back.\u201d<\/p>\n

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