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WITC SHELLFISH GRANT HEARING PAGE 3 <br /> 5/18/77 i <br /> FRED NICHOLS :NICHOLS : After this winter, according to you, Mr. Courtemanche, <br /> everything was killed in the Bay. j <br /> R. COURTEMANCHE: That' s correct. The intertidal area is depleted. <br /> The lower estuaries still have shellfish. <br /> F. NICHOLS: Cherrystone quahogs were good at Punkhorn Point. <br /> R. COURTEMANCHE: There is some shellfish at Punkhorn Point TheJ. <br /> i <br /> determination will be made by the DOMF. <br /> F. NICHOLS: How can they make a determination if they've been <br /> killed off? <br /> R. COURTEMANCHE: They take the winter into consideration. I did <br /> submit a report to the DOMF estimating the amount of loss we had <br /> in this Town as far as shellfish is concerned. The actual <br /> survey is made in the water taking square yard samples. <br /> F. NICHOLS: Does this grant go all around the island? <br /> F. NICHOLS: Does this grant go all around the Island? <br /> i; <br /> R. COURTEMANCHE: Approximately 90 ' - 100 ' in circumference around <br /> the Island, excluding the channel between the Island and Punkhorn <br /> Point, that is totally enclosed by the grant. The grant consists i . <br /> of approximately 4.65 acres. If approved, the area will be marked <br /> by buoys. <br /> E. SIMPSON: Are there any private landowners in that area? <br /> R. COURTEMANCHE: Gooseberry Island is owned by one individual. <br /> It does abutt Punkhorn Point and there are two private abuttors <br /> there. Mr. McCloud, Mr. Nichols, Mr. Savage. <br /> MR. NELSON: There is one more that has not had notification. <br /> He' s between Savage <br /> Walter Highland of Brockton. and us, right <br /> on the water. <br /> V. POCKNETT: Does the Town own the marshland there? <br /> G. BENWAY: Yes. The Town owns a crescent marshland tidal land <br /> all the. way to a place that used to be Warner' s Bog. <br /> V. POCKNETT: Abuttors would be the Town? <br /> G. BENWAY: Right. <br /> E. SIMPSON: The people that own 1 <br /> a <br /> nd here <br /> would <br /> have <br /> no access <br /> s s to <br /> open water? <br /> G. BENWAY:- They would have access over their shoreline to open <br /> rran <br /> ement <br /> if this <br /> were to become <br /> water. I would like to see an a g ► � <br /> i <br />