Parts of Boston Harbor are clean enough for recreational shellfishing for the first time in a century. To mark the moment, we ...

Decades of cleanup efforts in Boston Harbor will allow a few towns to open beaches for recreational shellfishing, which had ...

Parts of the Down East coast have been reopened to shellfish harvesting because of declining levels of a potentially harmful biotoxin produced by an unusual algae bloom. On Thursday, the Department of ...

A 180-acre section of Greenwich Bay that's been closed to shellfishing for two decades will reopen Friday morning, Gov. Dan McKee and the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management announced ...

Beneath the rolling waters surrounding the Thimble Islands lie 900 acres of shellfish beds that state officials want to use to expand Connecticut’s ancient oyster and clam industry. Jonathan Waters ...

WARREN, R.I. (WPRI) — The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) announced Thursday that roughly 515 acres of Mount Hope Bay will once again be “conditionally approved” for ...

Justin Whipple is waist deep in water at Gull Cove, just off Route 24 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. He’s shimmying a bit, his eyes fixed on a far-off point. While it looks like he’s doing some sort of ...

PORTSMOUTH, R.I. (WPRI) — Around 700 acres of shellfishing grounds off Prudence Island will be closed from July 26 until sunrise on Aug. 2. A map of the shellfishing grounds that will temporarily be ...

Anyone looking to get a recreational shellfish license in Gloucester this summer will now have to be at least 18 years old ...

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