Shellfish Transplant Program
A boatload of quahogs to be transplanted.
NBC has assisted the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (RIDEM) and the RI Shellfishermen's Association in their joint annual shellfish transplants in Narragansett Bay for over eight years. This effort is intended to relocate quahogs from polluted areas to cleaner waters in various management areas around the state of Rhode Island. In order to illustrate the large scope of this effort it can be noted that in 2008 alone, over six hundred thousand pounds of quahogs were transplanted. NBC is proud to be associated with this effort.