12/11/2018 SHELLFISH COMMISSION Minutes

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Town of Mash—pee . ,� . Shellfish Commission 16 Great Neck Road North Mashpee,MA 02649 MINUTES OF MEETING 12-11-18 Attendance: William Holmes, Steven Marques, Ashley Fisher, and Richard York. Public: Richard Cook, Scott Matoian, Chris Burtis, and Mark But-tis. Convene Meeting: 7:10 PM Public Comment: None Approval of Minutes: 5-8-18 and 6-26-18 remove from the minutes from the agenda. The minutes cannot be accounted for. Motion: Holmes made a motion to remove the minutes from. 5-8-18 and 6-26-18 from the agenda. Marques seconded the motion. All voted unanimously in favor. 11-13-18 minutes. Motion: Marques made a motion to accept the minutes for 11-13-18 as written. Holmes seconded the motion. All voted unanimously in favor. Shellfish Constable's Re ort So far it has been a great year for harvesting oysters at Mashpee Neck landing, over 300 bushels have been harvested between November 1St and December I". The new site in the Mashpee River on the south western side of our grow out areas is where most of the oysters have been transplanted from this year. All of these oysters are from our 2016 remote set(2,000 bags) order from the Dennis Aquacultural Research Corporation. The Director and I presented our water quality improvement data at the Cape Cod Coastal Conference this year. In 2017 the data gathered from our Mashpee Monthly Water Quality Monitoring Data showed a total nitrogen reduction in Little and Great River as well as Hamblin Pond. These findings are directly related to our increased shellfish seeding efforts in the area. No violations to report for the month of November 2018.