Explore the Interactive Aquaculture Lease Map (RI DEM web site)

(For informational purposes only. See official Assent files for acreage and operational details)

Instructions for using the Interactive Lease Map (PDF)

Frequently Asked Questions: Rhode Island Aquaculture

RI Shellfish Management Plan web site (RI SeaGrant)

Memorandum of Agreement between the RIDEM and the CRMC (PDF)

• 2019 Annual Aquaculture Report (PDF)
• 2018 Annual Aquaculture Report (PDF)
• 2017 Annual Aquaculture Report (PDF)
• 2016 Annual Aquaculture Report (PDF)
• 2015 Annual Aquaculture Report (PDF)
• 2014 Annual Aquaculture Report (PDF)
• 2013 Annual Aquaculture Report (PDF)
• 2012 Annual Aquaculture Report (PDF)
• 2011 Annual Aquaculture Report (PDF)
• 2009 Annual Aquaculture Report (PDF)
• 2007 Annual Aquaculture Report (PDF)
• 2006 Annual Aquaculture Report (PDF)
• 2005 Annual Aquaculture Report (PDF)
• 2004 Annual Aquaculture Report (PDF)
• 2003 Annual Aquaculture Report (PDF)
• 2002 Annual Aquaculture Report (PDF)
• 2001 Annual Aquaculture Report (PDF)
• 2000 Annual Aquaculture Report (PDF)
• 1999 Annual Aquaculture Report (PDF)

Aquaculture Application and Permitting Process (PDF)
Aquaculture Application Package (PDF)
Research/Educational Aquaculture Application (PDF)
Recreational Aquaculture Application (PDF)
Experimental Aquaculture Application (PDF)
Aquaculture Lease Transfer Request Form (PDF)

Total Organic Carbon in Sediments around Aquaculture Farms in Coastal Rhode Island (PDF)

Developing methods for analysis and drawing conclusions from larval settlement monitoring in Narragansett Bay: Is the timing of seasonal recruitment a driver of non-native success in the intertidal fouling community? (PDF)

The mission of the ECSGA is to promote responsible commercial shellfish aquaculture through market research and promotion, active involvement in public education, participation in policy formation at the state and national levels, and directed research.

East Coast Shellfish Growers Association web site

All files below in PDF format unless indicated otherwise.

• CRMC Working Group on Aquaculture Regulations: Report on the Deliberations of the Group and Suggestions to Guide Future Development
• Report to the CRMC Council on Aquaculture Working Group progress (PPT)
• Working towards consensus: application of shellfish carrying capacity in management of Rhode Island aquaculture
• CRMC Working Group on Aquaculture Regulations: Subcommittee on Biology Report on Biological Impacts of Aquaculture
• Modeling Carrying Capacity: Final Results
• Modeling Carrying Capacity: Presentation of Conceptual Diagram
• Environmental Impact and Ecosystem Services Provided by Oyster Aquaculture
• CRMC Aquaculture Policy
• Aquaculture in Rhode Island - The Permitting Process
• A Brief History of Shellfish Aquaculture In Rhode Island
• Draft Framework for a Rhode Island Aquaculture Development Plan
• Influence of Mussel Aquaculture on Nitrogen Dynamics in a Nutrient Enriched Coastal Embayment
• Influence of Mussel Aquaculture on Nitrogen Dynamics in a Nutrient Enriched Coastal Embayment
• Phase I Guidance on a Planning Framework for Conducting a National Sea Grant College Program Strategic Planning Process
• The Cultivation of Marine Soils - The Hydraulic Harvesting of the Hard Shell Clam Mercenaria Mercenaria
• Shellfish-Eelgrass Interactions
• Review of recent carrying capacity models for bivalve culture and recommendations for research and management
• NRAC 101: Planning for Success in Your Aquaculture Business
• NRAC 102: FreshwaterAquaculture Species for the Northeast
• NRAC 103: Marine Aquaculture Species for the Northeast
• NRAC 104: Aquaculture Systems for the Northeast
• NRAC 105: Environmental Effects of Shellfish Aquaculture in the Northeast
• NRAC 106: Fish Health Inspections: What They Are
• NRAC 107: Aquaculture Risk Management
• NRAC 110: Aquaculture Situation and Outlook Report 2007 Rhode Island
• Ecological Carrying Capacity of RI Aquaculture
• An Assessment of Habitat Value of Constructed Intertidal Oyster Reefs and Oyster Aquaculture Systems
• Juvenile Winter Flounder by Habitat Type
• Retention of Winter Flounder Larvae within a RI Salt Pond
• A Winter Flounder Habitat Index for Connecticut
• Habitat Management Qualitative Risk Assessment: Water Column Oyster Aquaculture in New Brunswick
• Mitigation of Dredging Impacts to Oyster Populations
• Hard Clam, Flounder, Smelt, and Oysters: Habitat Considerations (Connecticut)
• Predicting the carrying capacity of bivalve shellfish culture using a steady, linear food web model
• Review of recent carrying capacity models for bivalve culture and recommendations for research and management
• Macroalgal growth on bivalve aquaculture netting enhances nursery habitat for mobile invertebrates and juvenile fishes
• New applications of hydroacoustic methods for monitoring shallow water aquatic ecosystems: the case of mussel culture grounds
• The Importance of Habitat Created by Molluscan Shellfish to Managed Species along the Atlantic Coast of the US - Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission
• Interim Guide to Information Requirements for Environmental Assessment of Marine Shellfish Aquaculture Projects
• Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Pacific Region Shellfish Aquaculture Operational Statements Review Document - Appendix 1, Annotated Bibliography
• Clarification and Additional Scientific Information for Coast Seafoods Continued Oyster Aquaculture Operations
• Comparative Patterns of Occupancy by Decapod Crustaceans in Seagrass, Oyster, and Marsh-Edge Habitats in a NE Gulf of Mexico Estuary
• CT General Permit for Nitrogen Discharges and Nitrogen Credit Exchange Program
• Influence of simulated bivalve biodeposition and microphytobenthos on sediment nitrogen dynamics: A laboratory study
• Point Reyes National Seashore Drakes Estero Assessment of Oyster Farming Final Completion Report, March 2005
• Ecological implications of intertidal mariculture: observed differences in bivalve community structure between farm and reference sites
• Estuarine Influence on Survival Rates of Coho (Oncorhynchus kisutch) and Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) Released from Hatcheries on the U.S. Pacific Coast
• A Comparative Evaluation of the Habitat Value of Shellfish Aquaculture Gear, Submerged Aquatic Vegetation and a Non-Vegetated Seabed
• Modeling Seagrass Density and Distribution in Response to Changes in Turbidity Stemming from Bivalve Filtration and Seagrass Sediment Stabilization
• Oyster Grow-Out Cages Function As Artificial Reefs for Temperate Fishes
• Integrated treatment of shrimp effluent by sedimentation, oyster filtration and macroalgal absorption: a laboratory scale study
• Comparative Use of Longline Oysterbeds and Adjacent Tidal Flats by Waterbirds
• Shellfish, the Positive Face of Aquaculture
• Assessing the Relationship between the Ichthyofauna and Oyster Mariculture in a Shallow Coastal Embayment, Drakes Estero, Point Reyes National Seashore
• Seafood Report - Farmed Clams
• Shellfish aquaculture - In praise of sustainable economies and environments