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Screenshot from video with large kelp leaves floating in the ocean.
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A Kelp's Slime

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a heat map showing a thick band from Africa, across the northern coast of South America and into the Gulf of Mexico
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The Sargassum Belt

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Sargassum forms dense clumps up to the size of a beach ball that slowly rotate as they drift.
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Too Much of a Good Thing—the Atlantic Sargassum Belt

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Convict surgeonfish are the roaming sheep of the reef but, instead of noshing on grass, they feed on algae.
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Surgeonfish: Indicators of a Healthy Reef

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Seagrasses are flowering plants that can form dense underwater meadows and are an important shallow water habitat.
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How Coastal Seagrass Feeds the Deep

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Sargassum fish from South Korea
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Sargassum fish from the Waters of South Korea

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Trout cages in 30 feet of water.
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Aquaculture Comes Full Circle

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Trout cages in 30 feet of water.
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Feeding IMTA Trout

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Neptune grass (Posidonia oceanica) is a slow-growing and long-lived seagrass native to the Mediterranean.
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Fish Feeding in Seagrass

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Kelps are large, brown algae that grow along coasts around the world, especially in cooler regions.
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With Every Breath You Take, Thank the Ocean

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Relatively slow moving, juvenile plane-head filefish Monacanthus hispidus (Monacanthidae) travel along with the algae. They pick off and eat small animals as they move around in the rotating sargassum ball. Adult filefish only grow to be about 11
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A World Adrift: Life in the Sargassum

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This shrimp is colored to fit in - probably why they are common members of the seaweed community.
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A World Adrift: Life in the Sargassum Slideshow

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