January 9, 2025 — The Ocean State has a new charity license plate that will support research on sustaining seafood that lives in the waters off Rhode Island.
The license plate “features eight iconic seafood species that are sustainably harvested in Rhode Island state waters and enjoyed throughout the state, region, and world,” according to the Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation, the nonprofit foundation that will benefit from plate sales.
Based in Kingston, the foundation is “a non-profit, private foundation dedicated to conducting research that assists in the achievement of sustainable fisheries through the generation of better information and effective technologies.” It was founded in 2004 by a group of fishermen and others in the industry.