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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 />Shellfishery Management Plan <br />The management plan is closed area rotation. Areas are seeded and closed to shell <br />fishing for up to 3 years. New areas are seeded and other areas opened for harvest <br />annually. The Board of Selectmen close and open areas for shell fishing. <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 />Mashpee/Wakeby Management Committee: Don MacDonald reported that there was <br />a meeting by the Lake advisory committee but that he was unable to attend. <br />Discussions resumed regarding the alleged "enforcement "problems ("intrusion by <br />mooring") and safety of personal watercraft but were curtailed until the new <br />Harbormaster could be appointed. <br />Popponesset Bay & Waquoit Bay: Rick York and Tim Leedham reported that there <br />was some activity on the bays, but mostly limited shell fishing and several winter sticks <br />were being converted to seasonal mooring devices. Rick mentioned he believed the <br />Waquoit Bay mooring field needed to have the winter sticks removed by the end of May. <br />Water Quality: Don MacDonald said he has sent or an email to all participants of last <br />year's program regarding general information for this year's activities. He believed the <br />