Recommendation: Sargassum Management Plan

The third recommendation, a sargassum management plan, seeks to preserve beaches, one of the main assets drawing visitors to the Caribbean. With sea level rise and growing influxes of sargassum, St. Croix could benefit from seasonal policies to manage the seaweed. The plan should publicize health and safety measures for making contact with decomposing seaweed, ensure water filtration services are clean and sufficient, organize sargassum removal before it can settle on beaches, and proactively protect beaches to avoid the need to declare national emergencies. Sargassum is only projected to increase, and St. Croix must be prepared to handle it safely.