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 | 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 | Feb 6, 2017 | Winter 2017
Help Wanted In a place with nearly 400 miles of coastline, a place whose nickname is the Ocean State, you’d think filling jobs in the marine trades industry would be a snap. Think again. In Rhode Island in 2012, the marine trades cluster—from boatyards to...
