by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Sep 6, 2024 | Coastal Communities, Marine Law, News, Students
The Block Island Ferry terminal is vulnerable to threats from climate change, such as increased storms and rising sea levels. On a sunny Tuesday morning in late June, students from the Roger Williams University School of Law Marine Affairs Institute’s Coastal...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Aug 14, 2024 | News, Sustainable Seafood
Rhode Island’s aquaculture industry provides over $6M annually in farm-gate value and employs nearly 400 people. Aquaculture is one of the state’s priority areas for economic vitality, but it faces many challenges to its continued growth. Recent, contentious lease...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jul 26, 2024 | Events, News, Uncategorized
Shoreline access signs sometimes disappear or are damaged or obscured. The town of Bristol has solved this problem at a number of their rights-of-way (ROWs) by installing granite markers—monoliths that go several feet into the ground and are carved with the words...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jul 24, 2024 | News, Research
Temperature and interactions with other types of phytoplankton appear to indicate heightened domoic acid risk from Pseudo-nitzschia Harmful algal blooms closed portions of Narragansett Bay to shellfish harvesting twice in the last decade—once in September 2016 and...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jul 22, 2024 | News, Students
URI senior Corinne DeAngelis learned about running a fisheries apprenticeship program—and picked up some unusual skills along the way As part of her summer internship, Corinne DeAngelis trained alongside commercial fisheries apprentices who were learning how to put on...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jul 17, 2024 | News, Research
Conflicts, lack of shoreline access, limit cooperative use of marine spaces The idea that different marine businesses can share space, infrastructure, and resources has been touted as a way to find mutual benefits and reduce use conflicts. Often the vision is for...
