Rhode Island Shellfish Management Plan
24 March 2016
Video Takes You on the Water with a QuahoggerFor hundreds of years, people have harvested quahogs from Narragansett Bay ...read more17 March 2016
Legal Aspects of Living Along Shoreline Topic of March 30 TalkA series of educational programs about Rhode Island’s salt ponds and ...read more1 March 2016
March 9 Film Presentation Features Point Judith PondCome view the short film “RI’s Salt Pond Ecosystems and ...read moreThe Rhode Island Shellfish Management Plan (SMP) is the culmination of two years of effort and engagement by the Rhode Island shellfish community inclusively, facilitated by the Coastal Resources Center/ Rhode Island Sea Grant at the Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island. The shellfish community, or stakeholders, involved in crafting and editing the plan include state and federal management agencies, the commercial wild harvest shellfish industry, the aquaculture industry, non-profit and citizen organizations, recreational harvesters, and the academic communities at URI, Roger Williams University, and others throughout the state. Guided by the principles of conducting an open, transparent, stakeholder-driven process that would honor and further existing activities on the Bay and coastal salt ponds, the SMP strived to identify key issues then craft management and science recommendations that the state agencies can use to ensure sound management of shellfish resources into the future.
read moreThis document serves as an appendix to the Rhode Island Shellfish Management Plan,.
read moreAn update on the Rhode Island Shellfish Management Plan and its goals. This report emphasizes the statewide momentum for the SMP and the celebration of the role of shellfish resources as economic and cultural touchstones for many in Rhode Island and beyond.
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