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Falmouth/Mashpee Town Line in Waquoit Bay—The map/photo of the Falmouth/Mashpee Town line in Waquoit Bay prepared by Tom Mayo (GIS Dept) was distributed. The map was constructed by overlaying the 2007 Town aerial photo on the map of the Town lines in the Barnstable County deed book. Tom is working on checking the line compass direction heading from the text in the book. This requires research on the coordinate system used. New Business: Shellfish Propagation 2011 —The propagation plan for 2011 is to get 1,000 oyster remote-set spat bags, a million quahog quahog seed and 100,000 scallop seed from the hatchery and grow them in upwellers and trays as usual. Barnstable County is funding 200 of the oyster spat bags and 200,000 of the quahog seed again this year. Quahog seeding/eutrophication mitigation project—The plan is to get more quahog seed from the hatchery to grow and plant in shellfish growing area SC-16 (Great and Little Rivers, Hambin and Jehu Ponds) for the purposes of enhancing the fishery and mitigating eutrophication. The Massachusetts Estuaries Project (MEP) Report for that area calls for a 4,344 kilograms (kg) reduction in nitrogen loading per year to meet the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) for nitrogen. According to the report, more than half of nitrogen load is coming out of the bottom sediments. Harvest of an additional 2.6 million quahogs from the area would remove an estimated 434 kg of nitrogen or about 10% of the reduction required based on the estimates of nitrogen content of littleneck quahogs. The Shellfish Constable is looking for funding for the project. Shellfish topics for 2011 —Postponed to next meeting Adjourn meeting: 8:40 PM - Motion to adjourn by Marques, seconded by York. Vote—unanimous in favor of adjournment. Respectfully submitted, Richard York Shellfish Commission Secretary Mashpee Shellfish Commission Minutes February 8,2011 —Page 2