“Every year it gets worse and worse. Before we had deliveries for three months, now it lasts almost all year round. The volumes are increasing, people are writing to us to complain…” This bitter observation, drawn up by Frédérick Mandine, director in charge of the environment and the sea in the town of Petit-Bourg, 25,000 inhabitants, in Guadeloupe, could apply to the whole of the French West Indies, as the sargassum crisis has taken on a regional scale over the last fifteen years. Martinique and Guadeloupe each collect between 30,000 tonnes and 50,000 tonnes per year.
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