10/8/2013 SHELLFISH COMMISSION Minutes

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I r Town of Mashpee : : ShellfishCommission 1 Great Deck Road North .N : �' lashpee, 11� 02649 � O %}*r+� 4lr�ri�#i*+ •ii** fi � OLE C MINUTES of MEETING 10=8=13 Attendance: William Holmes, Stephen Marqu s, and Richard York Convene Metir : :00 PM by vice-chairman William Holmes (ChairmanThomas absent) Public Comment: alone Approval of Minutes: Motion to approve the 8-1.8-13 minutes by Holmes seconded by York. vote — unanimous in favor. Shellfish Constable's Report: About 15 bushels of scallops have been harvested from Waquoit Bay since opening day, October 1, and none in Popponesset Bay. At the hearing last night, the Board of Selectmen voted unanimously to close the area inside of Great River for quahog seed propagation effective October 11 for up to 3 years. The area is about 1.48 acres and will be marked with yellow balls at the corners. We are growing 6,000,000 quahog seed from the ARC hatchery to be planted under the nets to protect it from predators such as birds and crabs. This is the Community Preservation funded project. Another ,000 quahog seed for other areas was purchased from the hatchery with our propagation funds and funds from the Barnstable County Cooperative Extension. The Community Preservation funded project also doubled the amount of oyster seed purchased this year to 2,000,bags of seed on shell pieces (remote set at the hatchery). Barnstable County Cooperative Extension supplied another Zoo bags for a total of 2,200 begs of oyster seed placed in trays in the Il ashpee River. AmeriCorps members constructed 90 neer 5' x10' oyster trays during AmeriCorps Week last May. The application for$114,000 to repeat the seeding project again next year approved by the Co rnunity'Preservation Committee was put on the warrant for the October 21 Torn fleeting. We got 60,000 bay scallop seed 1/8"+ size from the ARC hatchery that is growing in trays in Little River. On September 26, we got 72,000 bay scallop seed I" to " size from the-Taylor scallop farm in Fairhaven and planted therm in vaquoit Bay. Mashpee paid for 18#000. Falmouth paid for 18,000 and Taylor donated another 36,000. They are bright colors mostly orange and purple, so we will be able to tell them from our other seed that is the regular dark color. Our new Individual Placement AmeriCorps member starts tomorrow and will be here Wednesdays and Thursdays. AmeriCorps groups of up to 1 members (possibly more)will start working with us on propagation next geek.