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The Providence Journal A commercial shellfisherman's arrest Tuesday for digging quahogs at night in a closed waterway reminded a veteran environmental police officer of days gone by. In the 1970s and into the 1980s, it wasn't unusual for officers to find themselves chasing shellfishermen who were trying to make an extra buck and breaking the law by shellfishing at night, said Daniel White, a captain with the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management's law enforcement division. "It's more of a rare occurrence now," White said. That could be in part because development has pushed clo...