Tour boats docked near the seaweed line off Speyside, Tobago. The sargassum stretches from the shoreline deep into the water. PHOTO BY ELIZABETH GONZALES

Tobago Hotel and Tourism Association president Reginald MacLean says despite spending over a quarter million dollars last year to fight sargassum, the crisis is only getting worse. And he is now calling on the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) and Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar to step in, as his association joins a multi-million-dollar United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) partnership to combat the problem.