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$350,000 on seed this year. The cost of electricity, labor, and the amortized cost of new <br />upwellers is relatively small. At full implementation, the savings would be over a million <br />dollars a year. <br />Mashpee River and Shoestring Ba SC20 <br />Oyster seed -- 4,480 bags of oyster seed set on shell (remote set) are on order <br />from the ARC hatchery for delivery in June. <br />Our oyster project in the Mashpee River continues with 2,480 bags of seed to be <br />grown in trays. Funds from the October 2015 Town Meeting are being used to <br />purchase 2,000 of the bags, and funds from Barnstable County Cooperative Extension <br />are funding the other 480 bags. <br />The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe is funding 2,000 bags of oyster seed for a new <br />project to create an acre of restored oyster beds in Shoestring Bay with funds from an <br />EPA Healthy Communities Grant award to the Tribe's Natural Resources Dept. <br />Implementation Schedule <br />2016 — Described above. <br />2017 — Increase facilities and seeding. After the seed purchases in 2016, there <br />will be $135,000 remaining from the seed funds allocated at the October 2015 meeting <br />which will be used for seed purchases in 2017. More funding for implementation is in <br />the Fiscal Year 2017 budget approved by the Board of Selectmen and Finance <br />Committee for May 2016 Town Meeting. Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe has funding from <br />EPA for another acre of oyster restoration in Shoestring Bay in 2017. <br />2018 — Full implementation if funding appropriated at May 2017 Town Meeting. <br />Shelfishery Management Plan <br />The management plan is closed area rotation. Areas are seeded and closed to <br />shellfishing for up to 3 years. New areas are seeded and other areas opened for <br />harvest annually. The Board of Selectmen close and open areas for shellfishing. <br />Water Quality Monitoring <br />Water quality monitoring is on-going as a collaboration of the Town, Mashpee <br />Wampanoag Tribe, and the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth SMAST. It <br />includes the same summer sampling protocols and stations that were used for the <br />Massachusetts Estuaries Project (MEP) reports and TMDL-N reports from DEP. Also, <br />we have permanently deployed multi -parameter sondes (YSI) in Little River, the <br />Mashpee River, Popponesset Bay, and a new one this year at the site of the planned <br />oyster restoration in Shoestring Bay (funded by the Tribe). Water samples are <br />collected monthly year-round at the sonde sites for lab analysis. <br />