by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Aug 1, 2019 | Spring/Summer 2019
Offshore Wind Farms Worry Fishermen from Point Judith to New Bedford Spring/Summer 2019 THE MOTTO FOR THE CITY OF NEW BEDFORD, “Lucem Diffundo,” translates from Latin to “I Diffuse Light.” While this may have referred to the light of Christ, it was light from lamps...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Apr 11, 2019 | Spring/Summer 2019
The Graying of the Bay There’s a statue that stands in the courtyard of the Warwick Public Library. It’s an oversized depiction of a quahogger, rake in hand, two bulging bags of the shellfish by his side, and a Labrador Retriever for company. The statue is called “The...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Apr 11, 2019 | Spring/Summer 2019
Meet the Apprentices “I couldn’t feel my hands and they hurt to bend. I had never used my hands that way before,” says Evan Adams, describing how he felt after his first week as a deckhand on the fishing vessel Harvest Moon out of Point Judith. “I didn’t want to do it...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Apr 11, 2019 | Spring/Summer 2019
Second Harvest: Recycling Marine Debris Galilee Port Manager Daniel Costa, atop the dumpster, and Jason Howell, the superintendent of state piers, manning the front loader, wrestled a clot of discarded otter trawl nets into the 30-yard receptacle in the Port of...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Apr 11, 2019 | Spring/Summer 2019
Benefi-shell Recycling Jayne Merner Senecal roots through a buzzing pile of rich brown compost to pluck out one of the most powerful components in the mix—a clam shell, with the slick sheen of viscera and a vein of green sand. Shells, a natural marine byproduct that...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Apr 10, 2019 | Spring/Summer 2019
Keeping the Past Alive The bright red sails catch the late October sun as they are hauled one by one up the massive, 86-foot masts. They tower over the smaller, more modern sailboats and motorboats cruising through Newport Harbor. There’s a steady southwest wind that...
