{"id":70766,"date":"2003-01-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/sea-grant-community-service-award-cites-rep-naughtonas-aquaculture-visionary\/"},"modified":"2003-01-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-22T00:00:00","slug":"sea-grant-community-service-award-cites-rep-naughtonas-aquaculture-visionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2003\/01\/sea-grant-community-service-award-cites-rep-naughtonas-aquaculture-visionary\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea Grant Community Service Award cites Rep. Naughton\tas aquaculture visionary"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nNarragansett R.I. — January 22, 2003 — When good things happen in Rhode Island\u2019s aquaculture industry, Eileen Naughton\u2019s name usually comes up. Naughton, state representative from Warwick and chair of the Rhode Island Legislative Commission on Aquaculture, has devoted much of her legislative career to promoting aquaculture and related marine businesses as a viable force in Rhode Island\u2019s economy. <\/p>\n

She has also put money where her mouth is, directing funds to projects ranging from an educators\u2019 network that brings practical aquaculture into classrooms to a million-dollar-plus university\/industry\/government partnership that nurtures the industry through technological support and applied-science grants. <\/p>\n

In recognition of Naughton\u2019s commitment to economic development through marine enterprises, the Rhode Island Sea Grant College Program at the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Graduate School of Oceanography has presented her with its Community Service Award. The award acknowledges Naughton\u2019s leadership, not just locally but also regionally and nationally, in the “promotion, support, and industry development of environmentally and socially responsible aquaculture,” says Barry Costa-Pierce, director of Rhode Island Sea Grant. Costa-Pierce, a professor of fisheries and aquaculture at 溏心vlog免费B站 and author of a just-published aquaculture text, surprised Naughton with the award during the recent Northeast Aquaculture Conference and Expo in Providence\u2014an event Naughton helped launch in 1996.
\n\t“She has been a tireless champion of the merits of marine businesses like aquaculture that could be meaningful for the future of fishing, processing, and all the value-added aspects of aquaculture,” Costa-Pierce said as he presented the award. <\/p>\n

“This is about commerce and about improving our environment,” Naughton says of aquaculture and the supporting businesses it generates. Pointing to Rhode Island\u2019s maritime heritage, its ready workforce, and the intellectual and scientific capacity of its universities, she contends that the state has the resources to be a major player in global aquaculture efforts. <\/p>\n

To cultivate that potential, Naughton enlisted the support of U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, who procured for Rhode Island a $1.5 million National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) grant to enhance and diversify the state\u2019s aquaculture industry. Linking academic, regulatory, and industry resources, the Rhode Island Aquaculture Initiative funds applied research, integrated outreach, and industry projects intended to advance the development, promotion, and management of sustainable aquaculture in the Ocean State. <\/p>\n

Her unflagging belief in the potential of the industry and her generous expectations for the state\u2019s place in worldwide aquaculture have earned Naughton a reputation as a visionary. Costa-Pierce notes that she has looked beyond the complications of Rhode Island\u2019s densely populated coast and its early history of user conflicts to “promote the type of aquaculture that can be acceptable by the public and can maintain the viability of our working coast and our maritime heritage far into the future.” <\/p>\n

Rhode Island Sea Grant, based at the 溏心vlog免费B站 Graduate School of Oceanography, is a federal-state partnership that promotes the conservation and sustainable development of marine resources for the public benefit through research, outreach, and education. <\/p>\n

For information contact: Tony Corey (401) 874-6844\n\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sea Grant Community Service Award cites Rep. Naughton as aquaculture visionary Narragansett R.I. — January 22, 2003 — When good things happen in Rhode Island\u2019s aquaculture industry, Eileen Naughton\u2019s name usually comes up. Naughton, state representative from Warwick and chair of the Rhode Island Legislative Commission on Aquaculture, has devoted much of her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}