26/05/2025
“Responsible Marketing”
05/15/2025 Sargasso Stranding threatens Laguna Grande and its delicate ecosystems!
A possible repeat of the 2015 Dead Zone in Laguna Grande is being addressed with up most errancy! As teams pull together to combat this stranding of Pelagic Sargassum, brown seaweed from plugging the lifeline into Laguna Grande!
It’s all hands on deck, as all tour outfitters, staff, local volunteers, DRNA, Municipality of Fajardo pull together with new aquatic harvesters known as WeeDoo’s to remove this invader before it can decompose and create the conditions that will lead to another Lights Out in Laguna Grande!
With several days of cleaning both from the WeeDoos and the outfitters, sargasso and many of the fish have been removed from the area, and although we have an unstable conditions, some nights bioluminescence is showing and others its not. We are confident that the combined efforts and early removal of the stranded sargasso has prevented another long lights out for Laguna Grande.
10 days into this event and new protective booms in place, action plan set out by the DRNA and the Municipality of Fajardo, WeeDoo aquatic harvesters removing sargasso as to prevent a full stranding and the combined efforts of outfitter to remove dead fish, have prevented another long lights out. But, the lagoon will need to cycle for several weeks to fully recover and we will be promoting responsibly as we cannot predict the concentrations of bioluminescence. Our guides will be giving nightly reports on the conditions and we will update regularly.
Laguna Grande is much more than its glowing waters, paddling in under a star filled sky, our watching a sunset, enjoying 7 of 8 ecosystems found in the area as you paddle through a mangrove lined channel, views of the El Yunque rainforest in the background and much more, so come and enjoy this wonder of nature and see it for more than its bioluminescence as the Laguna Grande Recovers.
Special Thanks all involved in this cleanup, boom replacement, and removal of the sargasso.
Folow the link below to see the Weedoo aquatic harvesters at work removing sargasso from Las Croabas harbor.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJ7Hp_DAwge/?igsh=Z250cDhoODdtcTc5
