A new joint legislative study commission looking into the reasons for the decline of Narragansett Bay’s quahog population is scheduled to hold its first meeting on Tuesday.
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By CHRISTOPHER SHEA
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9/21/23
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By JOHN HOWELL
An ordinance that would have updated the city’s Harbor Management Plan and virtually wiped out the local shellfishing industry and most of the city’s marinaswas …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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6/29/23
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If you enjoy eating clams on the half shell, clam cakes and clam chowder there’s a better than a 50 percent chance that the quahogs were harvested from a 1,900-acre stretch of the Providence …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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5/4/23
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The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) has upgraded about 180 acres of shellfishing grounds in the Nausauket area of Greenwich Bay in Warwick from prohibited to conditionally …
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9/7/22
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By JOHN HOWELL Gov. Dan McKee did some manual labor Friday afternoon. So did Lt. Gov. Sabina Matos, Sen. Michael MCaffrey, Sen. Kendra Anderson and Mayor Frank Picozzi. Picozzi relished it. "You know I like to work outside," the mayor said after his
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By JOHN HOWELL
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5/20/21
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The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) has announced a new, mandatory education and certification program for everyone who commercially harvests and lands shellfish in Rhode Island.
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1/23/18
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