Dozens of registered shellfishermen helped the R.I. Department of Environmental Management harvest and transplant more than a half-million pounds of quahogs over the past month. The pay wasn’t much – between $5 and $7 for each 50-pound bag. But redistribution of the hard-shell clams dug out of Greenwich Cove and Warwick Cove to management ponds was designed for a bigger payoff: the industry’s long-term survival. Above, shellfishermen and volunteers help load quahogs on the boat Persistence. /
Dozens of registered shellfishermen helped the R.I. Department of Environmental Management harvest and transplant more than a half-million pounds of quahogs over the past month. The pay wasn’t much – between $5 and $7 for each 50-pound bag. But redistribution of the hard-shell clams dug out of Greenwich Cove and Warwick Cove to management ponds was designed for a bigger payoff: the industry’s long-term survival. Above, shellfishermen and volunteers help load quahogs on the boat Persistence.
