by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jun 21, 2021 | Spring/Summer 2021
Forging On The Last of the Quahog Tong Makers By Ellen Liberman | Photographs by Jesse Burke The clam has but two defenses: a shell and a foot. It uses the latter to burrow as much as 11 inches under the sea floor, where it hopes to live quietly in the muck, filtering...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jun 21, 2021 | Spring/Summer 2021
Reviving the Ancient Craft of Salt Making Local Hand-Harvested Sea Salt By Meredith Haas Matt Mullins, co-owner of Newport Salt Co., collects seawater from Brenton Point. We were out of salt. After months of home cooking during the COVID-19 pandemic, we went through...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jun 21, 2021 | Spring/Summer 2021
Boosting the Band of Boatbuilders A Blend of Traditional and Modern Boatbuilding By Todd McLeish | Photographs by Jesse Burke As a social studies teacher at a middle school in New York City, Ariana Murphy was restless. After earning a degree in history, she had worked...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jun 21, 2021 | Spring/Summer 2021
Solidarity Through Seafood Local Fishermen Help Those in Need - And Vice Versa By Kate Masury | Photographs by Jesse Burke | Alice Howard portrait by Dana Smith “As fishermen, we harvest fish to feed people. It’s what we are good at, and now more than ever, as we...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jun 21, 2021 | Spring/Summer 2021
Cold Water Women Building Connections in a Niche Surfing Community By Meredith Haas | Photographs by Cate Brown Abby Boone It’s 7:30 a.m., and I don’t feel much like pulling myself from my warm bed on a Saturday morning, even though the sun is shining brightly...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jun 21, 2021 | Spring/Summer 2021
Whaling Captains of Color America's First Meritocracy By Skip Finley By Monica Allard Cox Whaling was not a profession most crew members would choose if they had better options. Skip Finley paints a harrowing picture of whaling and how its very nature—dangerous,...
