After 50 Years, DEM Reopens Portsmouth Shellfishing Grounds • Rhode Island Current

After 50 years, DEM reopens Portsmouth shellfishing grounds • Rhode Island Current

Environmental Scientist Olivia Chatowsky with the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management's Shellfish Water Quality Program collecting a water sample for testing. (DEM photo)In poetic punctuation to end Rhode Island’s 10th annual Quahog Week, the state is reopening a section of Narragansett Bay along the Portsmouth shoreline for the first time in half a century. Saturday will be the first time the 462-acre area south of the Mount Hop…

DEM reopens 462-acre Portsmouth shellfishing area for first time since 1975 - What's Up Newp

A 462-acre shellfishing area along the Portsmouth shoreline just south of the Mount Hope Bridge will reopen for the first time since 1975, the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management announced. The area has met water quality and shellfish sanitation criteria and will be upgraded from prohibited to approved for harvest on May 23. DEM […] The post DEM reopens 462-acre Portsmouth shellfishing area for first time since 1975 appeared firs…

Portsmouth shellfish beds reopen after decades

PORTSMOUTH — A 462-acre stretch of waters along the Portsmouth shoreline south of the Mt. Hope Bridge will reopen to shellfishing this weekend for the first time in more than five decades, …