About Rhode Island Green Crabs

This initiative is born from a need to support and contribute to the important work already being done in New England and coastal communities around the world by taking a problem threatening our ecosystem and our fisheries—green crabs—and helping develop and deliver solutions that benefit not just these industries but the community as a whole.

RIGC is collaborative, not competitive, using the blueprints provided by those organizations and businesses who are already generously sharing information, research, and ways to help. Starting as a volunteer/citizen scientist, my goal is to donate my full-time effort to this cause in service of the community.

The ocean gave me life, New England raised me, Rhode Island saved me, and the green crab has given me purpose. I want to help heal the ocean as the ocean has healed me—giving back to the community that has given me so much, using my privileges of easy access to the water, the ability to donate my time, and having spent my formative years on the ocean, learning skills I can once again put to use.

As I begin this journey, I’m starting small. My initial focus is on Greenwich Bay and I hope to show the process building from an eelgrass-roots volunteer project to a sustainable business. Ultimately, my goal is to develop this project into a form of mutual aid: outreach and employment for traditionally underrepresented populations with limited access to the ocean, donating to feed our community, helping the blue economy flourish by taking invasive species and finding ways to use them for good—from harm to table.

As the project grows, I aim to grow, too. Get a boat, secure the necessary legal requirements to utilize green crabs in innovative, useful ways, expand to other abundant resources that need to be redistributed, explore the potential of green technologies. I welcome collaboration from others in the community who could use more hands doing the work.

A rising tide lifts all boats, and it’s never too late to find your purpose. Thanks for joining me on this journey.