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World Prodigy Grounding - General
World Prodigy Grounding - General
On June 23, 1989, the oil tanker World Prodigy ran aground off Newport, Rhode Island spilling 290,000 gallons of No. 2 fuel oil. The oil spread over 120 square miles of Narragansett Bay and Rhode Island Sound, killing lobsters, crabs, fish eggs, and larvae and closing beaches and shellfishing grounds. The goal of restoration activities is to enhance the populations and habitat of lobsters, quahogs, and estuarine fish and shellfish. The Restoration Plan/Environmental Assessment (RP/EA) was completed in 1996 and identified four restoration actions in Narragansett Bay: (1) lobster (Homarus americanus) habitat enhancement and seeding on a half-acre site in Dutch Island Harbor; (2) hydrologic restoration of 13 acres of salt marsh at the Sachuest Point National Wildlife Refuge; (3) establishment of two 100-acre quahog (Mercenaria mercenaria) 'spawner sanctuaries' in Narragansett Bay; and (4) eelgrass (Zostera marina) restoration at a number of sites throughout the Bay.
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Spill response and clean-up at the oil spill site. Clean up workers useabsorbent material to clean-up and wipe down the shoreline. The workersare cleaning up after the World Prodigy tanker spilled 290,000 gallons of #2home heating oil into Narraganse
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Spill response and clean-up at the oil spill site.
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A boom is deployed to contain oil at the spill site.
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A clean-up worker in the process of skimming oil as part of the clean-upprocess after the World Prodigy oil-spill.
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Hull Cove, Jamestown, RI
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Spill clean-up procedures. Close to 300,000 gallons of oil were spilled inNarragansett Bay, RI waters.
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Spill clean-up procedures. Close to 300,000 gallons of oil were spilled inNarragansett Bay, RI waters.
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Spill clean-up procedures. Close to 300,000 gallons of oil were spilled inNarragansett Bay, RI waters.
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A collection of anenomes and star fish.
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An American lobster (Homarus americanus) in very murky waters.
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Hull Cove, Jamestown, RI
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Hull Cove, Jamestown, RI
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Hull Cove, Jamestown, RI
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An aerial image of Mackerel Cove, Jamestown, RI.
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An aerial image of Mackerel Cove, Jamestown, RI.
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Fucus, a common plant found in Rhode Island coastal waters.
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Common sea star and anenomes.
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Anenomes.
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An anenome.
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A sea star in common eelgrass habitat in Rhode Island coastal waters.
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