by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Mar 8, 2023 | News, Sustainable Seafood
Click for RFP The Partnership for Research Excellence in Sustainable Seafood (PRESS) initiative announces an RFP that provides a mechanism of funding allowing a nimble and rapid response to critical issues in the Rhode Island seafood sector through interdisciplinary,...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Nov 30, 2021 | News, Sustainable Seafood
By Monica Allard-CoxContributions by Allie Shinskey Fish are more valuable than diamonds, according to economist Rashid Sumaila. He made this case to a skeptical audience at a conference in Namibia. ̀Diamonds, he told the conference attendees, are not a renewable...
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...
