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November 29, 2005

Oysters to be restocked in R.I. coastal waters

PROVIDENCE - The state Department of Environmental Management and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are expected to release more than one million oysters into Rhode Island's coastal waters starting today as part of the North Cape shellfish restoration program.

The restoration program addresses damage caused when the tank barge North Cape ran aground off Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown in 1996, spilling 828,000 gallons of heating oil into Block Island Sound and Rhode Island's coastal ponds.

This is the third release of oysters under the program. During each of the past two years, about 500,000 oysters were released.

Posted by Jack Perry  at 9:00 AM | Permalink