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Article: WAKEFIELD RESIDENT'S RESEARCH AT UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND AIDS IN UNDERSTANDING OYSTER SURVIVAL IN RHODE ISLAND
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- October 31, 2006
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The University of Rhode Island issued the following news release:
University of Rhode Island sophomore Nick Larghi explored the coast of Rhode Island during the last six months to discover on what type of surface oysters grow best and to see if oyster restoration sites are producing young oysters, which are also called spat.
"The North Cape Shellfish Restoration Project has set up six restoration sites throughout Rhode Island over the last four years where they have seeded oysters that are now growing," Larghi said, "I've set up experiments to test which surface oyster spat favored most and to see how many spat are settling."
He used an artificial surface as a settlement plate and scattered ...