
University of Rhode Island graduate student Erin Collings worked to haul in fish during a weekly cruise on the Capn Bert in Narragansett Bay and Rhode Island coastal waters. The study, ongoing since the 1950s, has shown a decline in northern fish species such as winter flounder and a rise in southern ones such as scup in Narragansett Bay.
(Globe Staff / Erik Jacobs)
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