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Article: Most Hail Plan to Restore Wildlife to Rhode Island's North Cape.
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- October 28, 1998
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Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 29--SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I.--The government's plan for replacing the wildlife killed in the state's worst oil spill drew some tempered criticism but mostly praise at a public hearing last night.
Lobstermen said the plan grossly underestimates the number of lobsters killed in the North Cape spill in 1996 and doesn't go far enough to replenish them.
Shellfishermen said they disliked hatchery-spawned quahogs and asked that native species be used to restore the clams to South County salt ponds.
And environmentalists argued that buying land around salt ponds was not in itself enough to guard the ...