Floating seaweed

Japanese: 流れ藻 - ながれも
Floating seaweed

This refers to seaweed that drifts on the ocean's surface, most of which is of the Sargassum species. Seaweed that grows on the coast is torn off by strong waves and gathers at the tide line, forming clumps that continue to grow and move with the ocean currents. Just like seaweed beds, small animals and fish gather on floating seaweed, forming a biological community. Flying fish, pacific saury, and halfbeaks use floating seaweed to spawn. Yellowtail, the most widely produced farmed fish, is cultivated by catching wild young fish called mojako that lie beneath the floating seaweed, and the amount and movement of floating seaweed greatly affects this fishery.

[Takeo Okuda]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

海面を漂流する海藻のことで、その大部分はホンダワラ類である。海岸に生育していた海藻が強い波に引きちぎられ、潮目に集まって塊となったもので、ずっと成長を続けながら海流にのって移動する。流れ藻には、藻場と同じく小動物や魚類が集まり、生物社会を構成する。トビウオ、サンマ、サヨリなどは流れ藻を利用して産卵する。養殖魚類のなかでもっとも生産量の大きいハマチは、流れ藻の下のモジャコとよぶ天然稚魚をとって養殖するもので、流れ藻の量、移動はこの漁業に大きく影響する。

[奥田武男]

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