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CON7y O <br /> FY+P4f <br /> w` = '+ z ' Town of Mashpee <br /> • _ Shellfish Commission 16 Great Neck Road North <br /> Mashpee, MA 02649 <br /> vvl 1 <br /> c °` MINUTES OF MEETING January 8. 2013 <br /> Attendance: William Holmes, Stephen Marques, Peter Thomas & Richard York <br /> Marcus Hendricks <br /> Public Comment: None <br /> Convene Meeting: 7:00 PM <br /> Approval of Minutes: 11-07-12 Postponed <br /> Shellfish Constable's Report: The courts ruled in favor of Board of Selectmen <br /> and Richard Cook in the suits against them. <br /> Old Business: <br /> Shellfish Aquaculture Regulations: Nothing new. <br /> Shellfish Propagation: <br /> Sponge Fouling: Nothing new. <br /> Waguoit Bay Town Line: Nothing new. <br /> Watershed Nitrogen Management Plan/Shellfish Restoration: The <br /> Watershed Nitrogen Management Plan (CWMP) shellfish component plan for <br /> 2013 includes doubling of oyster seeding in the Mashpee River from 1,000 bags <br /> of remote set oyster seed to 2,000 bags, and an increase in quahog seed from 1 <br /> million to 6 million. AmeriCorps will construct more oyster trays and quahog . <br /> seed trays. The quahog seed will be grown in upwellers then trays as usual, but <br /> an added step will be to plant the seed under nets to grow larger than 1 inch <br /> before planting in the wild. At the larger size, predation by birds and crabs is not <br /> a problem. The plan in future years is to seed and harvest over 20 million <br /> littleneck quahogs from the Great River, Jehu Pond, Little River, and Hamblin <br /> Pond area (DMF shellfish area SC 16) which will remove all of the nitrogen <br /> needed to restore water quality in that area according to the Massachusetts <br /> Estuaries Project (MEP) draft report on Waquoit Bay. The shellfish component of <br /> the WNMP also includes nitrogen removal by the harvest of shellfish from the <br /> Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe's shellfish farm. <br /> York— Motion to support the proposed shellfish component of the Watershed <br /> Nitrogen Management Plan. Holmes —2nd. Vote— unanimous in favor. <br /> 08:30 PM - Adjournment <br /> Respectfullyk ( kA A <br /> ed <br /> Richard York, Shellfish Commission Secretary <br />