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<span style="margin:0px;color:black">This is RIDEM with a Shellfish Closure Update: </span></p>
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Effective <b>Noon 12/1/2020 Conditional Areas Upper Bay Area "A"</b> and <b>Upper Bay Area "D"</b> will be closed to shellfishing and scheduled to reopen at
<b>Noon on 12/11/2020.</b></p>
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Effective <b>Noon 12/1/2020 Conditional Area Greenwich Bay</b> and the <b>Point Judith Pond Conditional Areas
</b>will be closed to shellfishing and scheduled to reopen at <b>Noon on 12/8/2020.</b></p>
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The <b>Mt. Hope Bay and Kickemuit River Conditional Areas</b> will <b>extend</b> in their shellfishing closures and are scheduled to reopen at
<b>Noon on 12/8/2020</b>.</p>
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<b>Excessive Rain Closures: Effective <b>noon on 12/1/2020<span> </span></b>the following areas GA 1 Upper Bay Area "B", GA 3 East Middle Bay, and GA 9 West Middle Bay will be closed to shellfishing are scheduled to reopen at Noon on 12/8/2020.</b></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;color:black">Sign up to receive email notifications of conditional area and emergency closures by sending an email to <a href="mailto:RishellfishOWR-subscribe@listserve.ri.gov" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(149, 79, 114);text-decoration:underline"><span style="margin:0px;color:blue">RishellfishOWR-subscribe@<span data-markjs="true" class="markcsn4318be" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="" style="margin:0px">listserve</span>.ri.gov</span></a> or
click on the Subscribe button on this webpage under Stay Informed. This voluntary email list is used to distribute information on water quality-related shellfish harvesting restrictions. As required by RI General Law § 20-8.1-3, DEM will continue to provide
notice of harvesting restrictions on the 24-hour shellfish hotline recording at 401-222-2900.</span><span style="margin:0px"></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;color:black">For information regarding where you can harvest shellfish, please refer to the interactive Shellfish Map, which can be found by clicking on “Shellfish Map” on the “Shellfish Links” menu located on the right side of the Shellfish
Home page (<a href="http://dem.ri.gov/shellfish" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(149, 79, 114);text-decoration:underline"><span style="margin:0px;color:blue">dem.ri.gov/shellfish</span></a>)</span><span style="margin:0px"></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;color:black">Current Status of CONDITIONALLY APPROVED areas of Upper Narragansett Bay, Greenwich Bay, Mount Hope Bay, or the Kickemuit River or other emergency closures may be obtained by calling the Shellfish Closure Hotline 401-222-2900
24 hours a day. If you have questions or concerns about shellfish closures, you may call (401)222-4700 or email them to <a href="mailto:dem.shellfish@dem.ri.gov" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(149, 79, 114);text-decoration:underline"><span style="margin:0px;color:blue">dem.shellfish@dem.ri.gov</span></a> </span></p>
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