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I wouldn't eat any type of fish/shellfish from the Warren Town Beach ! It is often polluted, and I wouldn't swim in it either; this is 2018, not the '50's when you could swim in it. Study up on amoeba.
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I wouldn't eat any type of fish/shellfish from the Warren Town Beach ! It is often polluted, and I wouldn't swim in it either; this is 2018, not the '50's when you could swim in it. Study up on amoeba.
Please do. The dangerous amoebas (aka brain eating amoebas) can't live in salt water.
I understand the shellfish point, but bluefish and the stripers (for the most part on the stripers) aren't resident fish that hang out just there. They come and go with the seasons/temperatures, and the baitfish. Pogeys, well, not a fan anyway.
Please do. The dangerous amoebas (aka brain eating amoebas) can't live in salt water.
I understand the shellfish point, but bluefish and the stripers (for the most part on the stripers) aren't resident fish that hang out just there. They come and go with the seasons/temperatures, and the baitfish. Pogeys, well, not a fan anyway.
Nevertheless, as for both 'beaches' (and the Warren 'river') I would never swim in these days. Too many very nice 'real' salt water beaches in RI. Even Barrington beach was closed for awhile; can't remember the dates but it was within the recent past.
I think the state does a decent job with water quality monitoring. Water is sampled regularly and beach closures are updated. Warren town beach is in a shellfish closure area so you wouldn’t be legally taking shellfish from there anyhow. The DEM publishes shellfishing maps and has a 24 hr closure hotline if the OP is interested in shellfishing.
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