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World Prodigy Grounding - Quahog Spawner Sanctuary
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World Prodigy Grounding - Quahog Spawner Sanctuary
World Prodigy Grounding - Quahog Spawner Sanctuary
Three 100-acre quahog spawner sanctuaries were established through the late 1990's -2000 in Narragansett Bay, RI to compensate for losses from the World Prodigy oil spill. Local shell fishermen were used to transplant the quahogs, Mercenaria mercenaria from polluted waters into clean spawning areas. Approximately 350,000 pounds of quahogs were successfully transplanted into the three sanctuaries.
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A local fisherman uses a bullrake to harvest quahogs from Greenwich Bay to betransferred to the spawner sanctuaries. The harvest took place in late springbefore the quahogs had spawned.
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A shellfisherman harvests quahogs to be transplanted to the spawner sanctuaries.
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A bullraker harvests quahogs in the still morning waters for transplant todesignated spawner sanctuaries.
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A shellfisherman and his pal rake quahogs for transplant to the spawnersanctuaries near Sakonnet River and outer Greenwich Bay, RI.
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A black lab walks over hundreds of pounds of quahogs that were dug up by localshellfishermen for transplant to quahog spawner sanctuaries off SakonnetRiver and outer Greenwich Bay.
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A shellfisherman heads in to weigh the quahogs he harvested for transfer to thespawner sanctuaries. The red bags contain the quahogs, Mercenaria mercenaria.
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Another boat heads in with a full harvest of quahogs.
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A local shellfisherman unloads his harvest at the docks where the quahogs wereweighed by local shellfish enforcement agencies before being transferred tothe spawner sanctuaries. The shellfishermen were paid for the harvest by theRI DEM.
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Another shellfishermen unloads his catch at the dock where volunteers weigh thehard shell clams to determine payment for the fishermen and to determinetotal weight of the transfers to the spawner sanctuaries.
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A local shellfisherman unloads his catch at the dock.
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Another local shellfisherman, who relied on the tonging method of harvestunloads his catch.
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Volunteers who participated in the harvest and transfer day load full bags ofquahogs into waiting vessels where the hard-shell clams will be transferred tothe sanctuaries.
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Volunteers loading clams, Mercenaria mercenaria onto the large boats that willtake them to the sanctuaries.
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One of the volunteer transfer vessels loaded with hard-shell clams waiting to betransferred to the quahog spawner sanctuaries.
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A smaller vessel unloads clams onto the mother vessel that will eventuallytransfer the clams to the spawner sanctuaries.
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Two volunteers empty clams from the mother vessel into the waters of thespawner sanctuaries outside Greenwich Bay and Sakonnet River, RI.
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A DEM worker unloads quahogs into the rough waters, in early spring, outsideGreenwich Bay.
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The process of emptying quahogs into the rough waters of Narragansett Bay tookhard work and a dedicated team of volunteers.
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Bags full of quahogs waiting to be emptied into the waters around the quahogspawner sanctuaries.
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A close-up of volunteers as they empty bags of quahogs into the spawnersanctuaries.
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