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A Rhode Island-based environmental group asked a federal court to freeze work on the Revolution Wind project, saying the plans require a new biological opinion on potential effects on endangered sei and fin whales. Green Oceans filed its original lawsuit in January challenging the southern New England offshore wind project.  On April 18 the group’s lawyers were back at U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth’s court in Washington, D.C., with a motion to ...

Members of Climate Action Rhode Island used flashlights and headlamps to illuminate their protest signs on the dark sidewalk. About 50 people rallied to shout their support for offshore wind and protest the two lawsuits filed by the Preservation Society, appealing the approval of South Fork and Revolution Wind 1 offshore wind farms.

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Last week, anglers met with Assistant Administrator and Chief of NOAA Fisheries Janet Coit and her staff in their Silver Spring, Md., office.

Sometimes there is a silver lining and good things come out of a bad situation.  Last week anglers met with Janet Coit, Assistant Administrator and Chief of NOAA Fisheries and her staff, to talk …

Stock up on your fly fishing flies by joining the RI Department of Environmental Management (DEM) Division of Fish & Wildlife Aquatic Resource Education’s annual Fall Fly Tying Program. …

Stock up on your fly fishing flies by joining the RI Department of Environmental Management (DEM) Division of Fish & Wildlife Aquatic Resource Education’s annual Fall Fly Tying Program. …

The entire Ocean SAMP was held up nationwide as a model program and several other coastal states began to use it as a model for similar planning. This made it all the more disappointing to me when I was part of the CRMC Fisheries Advisory Board (FAB) and it seemed that someone high in the chain of command had decided that the offshore wind projects were too important to be slowed down by the rigorous process defined in the Ocean SAMP. That process would be too slow and/or too expensive to follow...

Fall is a great time to fish, and it is getting better every day. Last week the tuna bite for school tuna was outstanding. Reports of as many as 40 school tuna being caught and released by one …

Fall is a great time to fish, and it is getting better every day. Last week the tuna bite for school tuna was outstanding. Reports of as many as 40 school tuna being caught and released by one …