August 11, 2023 – The Public’s Radio
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URI’s Coastal Resources Center leads major statewide initiative on Rhode Island’s ‘blue economy’
URI’s Coastal Resources Center is leading a statewide initiative to document Rhode Islan’s robust “Blue Economy’’ – the vast array of businesses, industries and institutions tied to the state’s waters.
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URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony on September 27 in Narragansett for the Greenfins Aquaculture Facility.
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NOAA Sea Grant and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) announced that Joe Langan, a student at URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography, was selected as one of seven 2018 NMFS-Sea Grant Joint Fellowship recipients.
Continue reading "GSO Student Receives NMFS-Sea Grant Joint Fellowship"URI oceanographer co-authors study on damages to seabed from different trawling methods
About a third of the world’s fish is caught using bottom trawling, a method that drags a net along the seabed, scooping up everything in its path. The ecological damage can be devastating. Many marine creatures—sea turtles, corals and anemones—are accidentally caught, and often die. As it scours the bottom, the trawl can also destroy […]
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