PROVIDENCE - The Department of Environmental Management (DEM) and Narragansett Bay Commission (NBC) are seeking commercial shellfishermen to participate in a quahog transplant next week. The clams harvested during the transplant will be used to enhance shellfish stocks in Rhode Island and provide...
PROVIDENCE - The Department of Environmental Management (DEM) will begin accepting applications for federal CARES Act fisheries assistance funding on Monday, September 14. The application period will be limited to 15 days, with a firm deadline of Monday, September 28.
A total of $3,167,923...
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) today announced that 133 mosquito samples from 43 traps set on Monday, August 24 and August 26, and 76 pools collected from 30 traps set on August 31 have tested negative for both West Nile Virus (WNV) and Eastern Equine...
PROVIDENCE – The Department of Environmental Management is announcing that it will be flying purple flags at state beaches warning swimmers of the presence of the Portuguese Man o' War, a dangerous sea creature with long tentacles and a painful sting. DEM beach managers closed Scarborough State...
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) is announcing that an employee of the vendor that runs Burlingame State Campground in Charlestown has tested positive for the coronavirus.
The employee is part of a three-person team that cleans restrooms at the...
PROVIDENCE – The Department of Environmental Management (DEM) today is confirming that a 14-year-old boy who was fishing with his father and brother drowned yesterday after slipping on the rocks and falling into the water at Beavertail State Park in Jamestown. The victim is Daniel Carrascoza of...
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) and Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) today are confirming this year's first positive detection of Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) in a mammal. DEM's Division of Law Enforcement (DLE) responded to a report of a...
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) today announced that 147 mosquito samples from 44 traps set on Monday, August 17 have tested negative for both West Nile Virus (WNV) and Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE).
To date, in Rhode Island, there has been one...
PROVIDENCE – The Department of Environmental Management (DEM), in partnership with Ducks Unlimited and the Federated Rhode Island Sportsmen's Clubs, Inc., will offer a youth waterfowl orientation and training workshop from 4 PM to 7 PM on Tuesday, September 29, at the Great Swamp Field...
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) and Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) today announce the detection of the first mosquito sample of 2020 that has tested positive for Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE).
The pool producing the sample consisted of...
