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 8, 2019 | Spring/Summer 2019
Skimming a Plastic Wave Rhode Island environmentalist Jamie Rhodes eats plastic. Granted, he’s only eating little specks, enclosed in oysters. But still, says Rhodes, “I am eating plastic. If you are going to eat shellfish, you are going to get microplastics into your...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jul 11, 2016 | Summer 2016
One Man’s Treasure : Uncovering Rhode Island’s Largest Ship Graveyard What was long thought to be an unsightly debris field off the East Providence shoreline has, thanks to one dogged marine archaeologist, been discovered to be the largest collection of scuttled...
