RI's Iconic Quahogs Are Disappearing. Could Moving Them Help Future Harvests?
EAST GREENWICH – It's not every day that you see quahoggers dumping their catch back into the water.
But that’s just what Mike Papa and his uncle Al Papa are doing on this spring morning.
Bag after bag of just-dug quahogs go over the gunwale of their skiff and into Greenwich Bay, 70 mesh onion bags in all, each one filled with roughly 300 of the precious bivalves.
It’s an enormous amount, especially in these days of paucity for Rhode Island’s troubled quahog fishery...
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