Jamestown Running Club members Steve Furtado, from left, Bill Alexander and Jeremy Collie ascend Green Lane during their 5K run Saturday that began and ended at Lawn School. PHOTO BY ANDREA VON HOHENLEITEN Regardless of the weather from the dog days of summer to the doldrums of winter a group of runners is
A worldwide study on the impacts of bottom trawling, which accounts for a quarter of the world’s seafood harvest and can negatively affect marine ecosystems, has found that seabeds are in good health where trawl fisheries are sustainably managed.
Rhode Island saved the winter flounder once. Can we do it again?
Outside of fishermen and scientists, the fish s disappearance has gone unnoticed. Out of sight, out of mind.
Alex Kuffner, The Providence Journal
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9:44 am UTC Apr. 15, 2021
It’s a point of pride for the crew of the research vessel John H. Chafee that they continued working last spring as the coronavirus outbreak took hold, keeping the Department of Environmental Management survey going even as other studies were suspended.
The work can be mundane trawling the same mile-long stretches in 13 locations around Narragansett Bay every month and combing through endless catches of fish and it’s not always productive. The only thing in one memorable catch from Mount Hope Bay was an old boot, laughs Capt. Pat Brown.
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