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 | Jun 13, 2024 | Marine Law, News, Uncategorized
Commercial Users’ Access to Rhode Island Marinas: A Rhode Island Sea Grant Legal Program Research Summary The competition for marina slips has become challenging in Rhode Island, in part due to the surge in recreational boating during the Covid-19 pandemic. A...
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 | Dec 30, 2019 | News
A New Study on How Eating More Oysters Could Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions If Americans replaced 10% of their meat consumption with oysters, the greenhouse gas savings would be the equivalent of keeping nearly 11 million cars off of the road, according to a new...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Sep 5, 2019 | News, Research
A recent study by Sea Grant-funded researchers from Boston University supports the notion that oyster reef restoration and aquaculture efforts may be an important method for removing nutrients that can over-fertilize coastal waters. The study, published in the July...
