by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Oct 5, 2020 | News, Sustainable Seafood
October is National Seafood Month – a distinction proclaimed by Congress over 30 years century ago to recognize one of our nation’s oldest industries. Government figures show that nationwide, the seafood industry supports 1.2 million jobs contributes $61 billion...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Sep 10, 2020 | News, Research, Students, Sustainable Seafood, Uncategorized
Courtesy of URI TodayBy Todd McLeish KINGSTON, R.I. – August 25, 2020 – Dressed in bright orange jumpsuits and matching masks, University of Rhode Island students Cara Megill and Jacqui Roush stood at Conimicut Point in Warwick and flipped a switch to begin pumping...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jun 10, 2020 | News, Research, Students, Sustainable Seafood, Uncategorized
Courtesty of American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America If you need to clean up a waterway, plant an oyster farm. Oysters have been shown to improve water quality by removing nitrogen and other nutrients that in...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | May 1, 2020 | News, Sustainable Seafood
Ways to Get Rhode Island Seafood With some of Rhode Island’s restaurants closed or curtailing their menus in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, local seafood harvesters have been coming up with new ways to get their lobsters, fish, and...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Feb 20, 2020 | News, Sustainable Seafood
By Cynthia Drummond | The Westerly Sun NARRAGANSETT — It will come as no surprise to local anglers that different fish species are now found in Rhode Island waters. In some cases, these fish are displacing ones traditionally found here, and scientists are trying to...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Sep 5, 2019 | News, Sustainable Seafood
Everyone, it seems, agrees that Rhode Island-grown oysters are among the best to be had at raw bars and restaurants across the state and beyond. As Jean Lambert, engineering/GIS coordinator with the town of Jamestown, said to participants at a tour of an island...
