They fear thousands of tons of sargassum on the beaches

According to statements by Esteban Amaro Mauricio, in charge of the Sargassum Monitoring Network, the coasts of Quintana Roo will have a significant increase in the coming weeks, that is, from May to August, with the beaches of Cancun being the ones with the greatest impact.

The Sargassum Monitoring Network of Quintana Roo confirmed that the beaches with the greatest presence of sargassum will be the beaches of Cancún, such as Playa del Niño, Puerto Juárez, and Puerta del Mar beach, as reported by Sipse.

Amaro stated that “thousands of tons, about 500 thousand, are expected. Mainly in the southern municipalities, Mahahual and Xcalak, Sian Ka’an, Solidaridad, and Tulum,” he indicated.

There are 100 beaches monitored in Isla Mujeres, Benito Juárez, Puerto Morelos, Solidaridad, Cozumel, and Tulum, where it is expected that 32 will have greater landfall from the Riviera Cancún beach before the Moon Palace Hotel, to Tulum.

As reported REPORTUR.mxRecently, the Citizen Observatory reported that more than half a million tons of pelagic sargassum were seen floating about 100 kilometers east of the Guanaja and Roatán Islands in the Honduran Caribbean, which they expected would reach the coasts of Quintana in a couple of weeks. Roo. (Fear in the Mexican Caribbean due to a flood of sargassum in two weeks).

The risk will be that the macroalgae spot doubles its biomass in less than 20 days, due to the ease with which it grows. The Observatory explains that there is a potential risk when macroalgae decompose on the shore, as they consume large amounts of oxygen, “causing anoxia and emitting toxic gases such as hydrogen sulfide and methane, very dangerous for human health and responsible for the massive death of many species,” indicated the entity, as reported by Sol Quintana Roo.