Aquaculture - Providence Business News

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

Cleaner bay can help boost the state’s blue economy

Editorial and Op-Ed 11/10/2023

The state says Narragansett Bay is the cleanest it has been in 150 years. For those who live around the bay and enjoy it...

New $2.45M oyster hatchery, research center breaks ground in South Kingstown

Economic Activity 04/12/2023

SOUTH KINGSTOWN - On a spit of land adjacent to the Matunuck Marina, a construction crew broke ground Tuesday for a new $2.45 million...

CULTURED WORKPLACE: Brendan Breen has developed a way for quahogs to produce pearls, which he plans to sell overseas or to jewelry makers closer to home.   / PBN PHOTO/DAVE HANSEN

Using clams, URI student produces pearl of a business idea

Entrepreneurship 11/01/2019

A COMMERCIAL QUAHOGGER since he was 14, Brendan Breen knew that the clams don’t often produce pearls. The discovery of such a gem in...

RWU Law, URI among institutions to share $1.2M grant to help...

Education 10/15/2019

BRISTOL – The Marine Affairs Institute at Roger Williams University School of Law and Rhode Island Sea Grant Legal Program, housed at the law...

THE USDA'S Natural Resource Conservation Service has called on aquaculture oyster producers in Rhode Island to apply for financial and technical assistance through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program as part of an effort to restore oyster reefs in protected water bodies as part of the Rhode Island Oyster Initiative. / BLOOMBERG FILE PHOTO/CAROLINE BLUMBERG

USDA calls on oyster farmers to apply for Rhode Island Oyster...

Food & Agriculture 07/12/2019

WARWICK – The U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resource Conservation Service has called on aquaculture oyster producers in Rhode Island to apply for financial...

THE UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND received more than $745,000 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to strengthen and develop training programs for aquaculture workers. / COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND

URI receives $746K for aquaculture worker training

Education 10/19/2018

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The University of Rhode Island received $745,815 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for its Rhode Island Sea Grant program,...

The Town Dock | Calamari

Food & Agriculture 10/05/2018

THE STORY: Narragansett-headquartered The Town Dock has been serving customers worldwide since 1980. It offers many product lines of frozen calamari and whole squid,...

THE THIRD ANNUAL QUAHOG WEEK begins March 26. The DEM is still accepting applications from restaurants and markets, as well as potential partners and venues that want to be involved with the week-long event. / COURTESY RIDEM

Third annual Quahog Week set to start March 26

Government 03/20/2018

PROVIDENCE – The third annual Quahog Week in Rhode Island will begin March 26, the R.I. Department of Environmental Management said Tuesday. The week runs...