Informational meeting to be held next Wednesday
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM), in partnership with the United States Forest Service and the Rhode Island Tree Council, today announced $30,000 is available in matching grants to support local tree...
Most conditional harvest areas remain closed due to rainfall
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) announced today that effective at sunrise on Saturday, October 29, the emergency shellfishing closure for Rhode Island waters will be lifted. The closure was...
Supports efforts to act on climate change, enhance wildlife habitat
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM), along with Save The Bay and other partners, announced today that work is now underway on an improvement project at the Sapowet Marsh Wildlife...
Areas remain closed to all other shellfish harvesting
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) announced today that harvesting of carnivorous snails, including whelk and moon snails, is now permitted in lower Narragansett Bay, lower Sakonnet River, and a...
Funding supports specialty crop production, sales in Rhode Island
PROVIDENCE - The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) today announced $225,524 in grant awards to five local groups working to grow the state's agricultural sector. The grants, funded under the U.S....
PROVIDENCE – A shellfish harvesting closure is in effect for lower Narragansett Bay and a portion of Rhode Island Sound. A closure is also in effect for lower Sakonnet River. The closures are due to preliminary toxic shellfish findings associated with the harmful algae bloom being monitored in...
PROVIDENCE – A shellfish harvesting closure is in effect for lower Sakonnet River, Harvester Tagging Area 5C, until further notice. The closure is due to a preliminary toxic shellfish finding associated with the harmful algae bloom being monitored in Rhode Island waters. The closure includes...
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM), in partnership with the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH), will hold an informational meeting tomorrow to review the recent emergency shellfishing closure for Rhode Island waters and plans for continued monitoring.
Impacted waters reopen effective noon today; conditional areas closed through Monday, October 17
PROVIDENCE – Effective at noon today, all waters impacted by the precautionary shellfish harvesting closure in Rhode Island are open to shellfishing with exception of conditional areas which remain...
Today's recall of shellfish harvested in Wellfleet, Massachusetts unrelated to local closure
PROVIDENCE - The precautionary shellfish harvesting closure announced last week for Narragansett Bay, Mt. Hope Bay, Kickemuit River, Sakonnet River and their tributaries remains in effect. The closure...
