Cleaner bay can help boost the state’s blue economy

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GROWTH ­POTENTIAL: Roger Williams University shellfish researchers, from left, assistant professor Hisham Abdelrahman, field operations manager Susanna Osinski and assistant Kristen Savastano, check aquaculture equipment near the school’s Bristol campus. 
PBN FILE PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO
GROWTH ­POTENTIAL: Roger Williams University shellfish researchers, from left, assistant professor Hisham Abdelrahman, field operations manager Susanna Osinski and assistant Kristen Savastano, check aquaculture equipment near the school’s Bristol campus. 
PBN FILE PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO
The state says Narragansett Bay is the cleanest it has been in 150 years. For those who live around the bay and enjoy it recreationally, that is cause for celebration. A cleaner bay also boosts tourism opportunities and is positioned to play a central role in the state’s development of the so-called blue economy. Not…


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