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Azure Cygler, Extensions Specialist at URI Coastal Resources Center and Rhode Island Sea Grant, provides an update on the Shellfish Management Plan's progress through the summer.
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September 17, 2013 5:00pm – 7:00pm
Updates on SMP progress
Seminar on the current shellfish
licensing structure
Set the stage for a follow-up
discussion on licensing –
Your view, the future, concerns
Oct. 8th - 5-7pm,
Large Conference Room,
Coastal Institute, URI Bay Campus
Summer Events –
125 public attendees
Great feedback from public
“Bucket List” for many
50 new listserv sign-ups
Over 1,000 unique visitors to www.RISMP.org
Generating advocates
“All over the Papers…” –
“A Day in the Life of a Quahogger: A Profile of Jeff Grant” “A Quirky Business: Profile of Oyster Grower Jim Arnoux” “Point of Entry: An Artist’s Perspective on public access to waterfronts” “New Uses for Swimming Scallops: Scientists investigate the commercial potential of sea scallop viscera “The Quahog State” “A Short history of oysters in Rhode Island’s salt ponds” “Cooking Local Seafood”
“I’ve lived in Rhode Island my whole life and always wanted to go clamming. Thank you for making this possible!” “I think its amazing fishermen put clams out here so we can go digging for a summer BBQ – I had no idea!”
12th Annual Ronald C. Baird Sea Grant Science Symposium
“The Future of Shellfish in Rhode Island: Providing sustainable seafood, economic opportunities, and ecosystem benefits ”
November 14, 2013, Radisson Hotel, Warwick
For more information and to register, visit: http://seagrant.gso.uri.edu/baird/2013_shellfish/index.html
What is the Sea Grant research $$ again?
Process – review committee, finalization, etc.
Proposal Evaluation Criteria
What next?
Who made the final cut?
“Developing Information and Local Capacity to Manage the R.I. Whelk Fishery” – Kathy Castro (URI), Katie Eagan, Tom Angell (RI DEM)
“Quahog Larval Dispersal and Settlement in
Narragansett Bay” – Scott Rutherford (RWU), Chris Kincaid (URI), Dale Leavitt (RWU), Jeff Mercer (DEM), David Ullman (GSO)
“Nitrogen Cycling Processes Across an Oyster Aquaculture Chronosequence” – R.W. Fulweiler (BU)
“A Model for Understanding Public Support for
Aquaculture & Estimating Social Carrying Capacity for Shellfish in R.I. Waters” – Tracey Dalton (URI), Di Jin (WHOI), Rob Thompson (URI)
“Could Diseases in Blue Mussels Affect Commercial Culture in the Northeast?” – Roxanna Smolowitz (RWU)
“A Geospatial Inventory and Preliminary
Valuation of Human Uses of R.I. Coastal Ponds.” – Rob Thompson (URI), Tracey Dalton (URI), Jim Opaluch
(URI), John Lake (F&W), Eric Schneider (F&W)
Year 1 and Year 2 schedule
Year 1: Ch.1, 3, 5, 8
Framing the chapters for Year 1
Chapter leads
TACs
Timeline
SMP Chapter to complete in YEAR 1 SMP Chapter to complete in YEAR 2
Ch.1 – Introduction Ch.2 – Ecology of Narragansett Bay and Salt Ponds
Ch.3 – Biology of Shellfish Ch.4 – Culture and History of Shellfish
Ch.5 – Harvesting, Growing, and Restoring Shellfish
Ch.6 – Economic Value of Shellfish
Ch.8 – Existing Statutes, Regulations, & Policies
Ch.7 – Natural and Human Risks
Ch.9 Management Structure
Ch.10 – Conclusions
Ch.11 - Implementation
Rationale and process in choosing TAC members Timeline:
25 August, 2013 Final list of prospective TAC members
05 Sept. 2013 Prospective members contacted
16 Sept.2013 Responses from prospective TAC members
17 Sept.2013 Announce TACs at SMP meeting
Oct.2013 First TAC meeting; review outlines
Oct.-Dec. 2013 TACs draft management recommendations
Jan.2014 DRAFT management recommendations completed for Year 1 chapters
Jan.-May 2014 Finalize year 1 chapters
Summer/Fall/Winter 2014 Implementation of Year 1 recommendations
Chapter 1 (Jen McCann)
Grover Fugate, CRMC
Janet Coit, RIDEM
Michael Fine, RI DOH
Chapter 3 (Dale Leavitt)
Marty Chintala, EPA
Najih Lazir, URI
Jeff Grant, commercial harvest
Mike Rice, URI
Steve Brown, TNC
Warren Prell, Brown
Marta Gomez-Chiarri
Sheldon Pratt, GSO
PROPOSED/ NOT YET CONFIRMED
Chapter 5 (Azure, Monique, Jeff Mercer)
Jim Arnoux, aquaculture
Art Ganz, Salt Ponds
Paul Kennedy, recreational
Bryan DeAngelis, TNC
Katie Eagan, commercial harvest
Mike McGiveney, commercial harvest
Bob Rheault, aquaculture
MA & CT state agencies
Chapter 8 (Julia Wyman & Melissa Chalek, RWU)
Gary Powers, RI DEM
Brian Goldman, CRMC
Dennis Nixon, RI SG
Greg Schultz, AG Office
Wendy Waller
Ben Goetsch, industry
Trish Jedele, CLF
PROPOSED/ NOT ALL CONFIRMED
Preliminary Review Committee (PRC) Opportunity to review drafts 2 weeks before public
review
Open to interested parties
Overall Reviewers Looks over final
document, edits,
formats, etc.
Selection in 2014
“Shellfish Licensing in RI: Structure & Purpose, Status & Trends”
(Followed by audience questions and a short “American Idol” style survey)
