The RI Rivers Council held its Annual Meeting in the RI State House on March 11, 2020, and after sharing Watershed Councils’ activities with legislators in the Capitol Rotunda, the Council was recognized in both the House and Senate prior to holding a short business meeting in the State House Library.
The Rhode Island Rivers Council has designated ten watershed councils in Rhode Island to represent the interests of their rivers.
See the list of member Watershed Councils and their websites.
The RIRC Booklet provides an overview of the functions of the Rhode Island Rivers Council as well as information about each of the 10 member watershed councils in Rhode Island.
The Rhode Island Rivers Council will be holding it’s January meeting “virtually” via Zoom on Wednesday, January 13 at 3pm. For more details see the agenda.
For information on past meetings see the Meetings and Presentations page.
For 200 years or longer, dams have blocked a number of important species of anadromous fish from completing their lifecycle.
Alewife, blueback herring, and American shad are just a few of the anadromous species that live their adult life in saltwater but return to freshwater to spawn and whose populations had virtually disappeared from the Pawtuxet River watershed following the Industrial Revolution. Continue reading
Phil Edwards, Supervising Fisheries Biologist with the RI Department of Environmental Management Division of Fish and Wildlife, has been counting the migrating fish for years at Gilbert Stuart stream (the headwaters of Narrow River) and other locations around the state. The attached chart for Gilbert Stuart Stream shows a steady decline in the population due to overfishing from 2001 until a moratorium was declared in 2006. Continue reading
