[Rimarinefisheries] Providence River Shellfish Management Area - commercial harvest schedule

[RI Marine Fisheries]

Please be reminded of the commercial shellfish harvest schedule for the Providence River Shellfish Management Area for the remainder of 2022, as follows:


  *   October 29 through December 11:  Closed
  *   December 12 through December 31:  Open one (1) weekday each week on the first 1st weekday which is not closed due to water quality impairment. Please be reminded that this schedule applies to both shoredigging and other than shoredigging

For management area schedules, please go to the regulations Part 4 - Shellfish<https://rules.sos.ri.gov/regulations/part/250-90-00-4> (section 4.12 "Shellfish Management Areas"), or call the Division of Marine Fisheries office at 401-423-1923.

Please be reminded that areas are only open notwithstanding water quality closures. A recording of current water quality harvest restrictions is available by calling the 24-hour shellfish hotline recording at 401-222-2900.  Additionally, one may sign up to receive email notifications of conditional area and emergency closures by sending an email to RishellfishOWR-subscribe at listserve.ri.gov<mailto:RishellfishOWR-subscribe at listserve.ri.gov>. This voluntary email list from the Office of Water Resources is used to distribute information on water quality-related shellfish harvesting restrictions.

Thank you.
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Peter A. Duhamel, Principal Environmental Planner
RI Department of Environmental Management
Division of Marine Fisheries
3 Fort Wetherill Road
Jamestown, RI 02835
401-423-1927

From: Duhamel, Peter (DEM)
Sent: Tuesday, November 1, 2022 9:34 AM
To: Borkman, David (DEM) <David.Borkman at dem.ri.gov<mailto:David.Borkman at dem.ri.gov>>
Cc: McManus, Conor (DEM) <Conor.Mcmanus at dem.ri.gov<mailto:Conor.Mcmanus at dem.ri.gov>>
Subject: RE: Shellfish Hotline - Providence River closure message

David I'm not a big fan of that last line, you're getting into that slippery slope where your stuff is addressing our stuff.  Though I appreciate your efforts to reduce any confusion. Defer to you on the hotline recording.  If you think would help, perhaps we should send a listserve now just for Prov River, follow up with GB after rule is filed?

Peter A. Duhamel, Principal Environmental Planner
RI Department of Environmental Management
Division of Marine Fisheries
3 Fort Wetherill Road
Jamestown, RI 02835
401-423-1927

From: Borkman, David (DEM) <David.Borkman at dem.ri.gov<mailto:David.Borkman at dem.ri.gov>>
Sent: Tuesday, November 1, 2022 8:55 AM
To: Duhamel, Peter (DEM) <peter.duhamel at dem.ri.gov<mailto:peter.duhamel at dem.ri.gov>>
Subject: Shellfish Hotline - Providence River closure message

HI Pete,
FYI that I got a few more phone calls from commercial folks asking if Prov River will be open on 11/2 for commercial harvest - confusion on Rec vs Comm schedules. So, I just changed the shellfish closure recording to try to clear some of that up'  The text is below:

This is RI DEM with a pollution related Conditional Area and emergency shellfish closure update.
Lower Providence River Area E and Greenwich Bay are currently closed and scheduled to reopen at NOON on November 2nd.  Reminder that the next commercial harvest in the Providence River is scheduled for the week of December 12th 2022.

Pls let me know if you see any problems w/ this recording (need to keep the recording brief).
Thanks!
D

David Borkman
Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management
Office of Water Resources, Shellfish Water Quality Program
david.borkman at dem.ri.gov<mailto:david.borkman at dem.ri.gov>
Ph: (401) 222-4700 extension  277-7412

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