03/12/2019 SHELLFISH COMMISSION Minutes

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4.10 Reasonable production value: Shellfish aquaculture license holders shall submit to the Board of Selectman and the Shellfish Constable on or before December thirty-first(3 1) in each year an Annual Aquaculture License Report(available on the town website at)which contains the total number of each kind of shellfish planted,produced, or marketed during the time of such report planted or growing thereon. The license holder shall produce documents upon request of the Board of Selectman or Shellfish Commission. Shellfish aquaculture license holders shall annually meet the performance requirement of planting at least ten thousand(10,000) shellfish seed per acre of licensed area or part thereof each year. All new licensees (first year of operation) are required to submit purchase and sales slips from their sources of seed planted on his or her licensed grant area from a Massachusetts State approved hatchery. Commission Comments: York: "This is a minimum requirement and we left in as the actual shellfish seed planted and not a dollar production value of the grant. We put this in the regulations as actual seed because things happen and you may have die off and other unexpected circumstances that may affect the actual production value. Is 10,000 seed pieces to low?" Marques: "That may be hard to track though and if they have financial constraints and something comes up do they lose their grant all together?" Fisher: "They will not lose the grant, but this is a minimum requirement to show they are utilizing the area that is being leased. The leased area must be utilized and not vacant. If left vacant and not in operation with no minimum requirement it would prevent the opportunity of other aquaculture applicants" Thomas: "Let's leave it at ten thousand.That way if they need to buy bigger seed for a year due to limitations they won't be burdened with high expenses." Fisher: "The market value of 10,000 market sized oysters is roughly$5,000, I believe that is sufficient for a production requirement." Public Comments: Cook: "I'm not opposed to increasing this to 40,000 pieces." 4.11 License fee: An annual license fee of twenty-five ($25.00) dollars per acre or any part thereof is due to be paid to the Town of Mashpee by the licensee on or before December 31St of each year. The license fee shall be paid in full within two (2)months of the due date. The annual license fee of twenty- five ($25.00)for the first year or part thereof shall be paid within 30 days of the issuance of the license. Commission Comments: Fisher: "The license holders now have to pay their annual license fee within 2 months of December the 31St each year. This is more than enough time to submit payment." 4.12 Individuals authorized to be within Shellfish Aquaculture License bounds: Only the shellfish aquaculture licensed holder or individuals authorized by the license holder shall take shellfish from the aquaculture license site MGL 130 section 67. The license holder shall provide the Shellfish Constable with a list of individuals authorized to harvest shellfish on the license site annually. If individuals are taken off this said list the Shellfish Constable must be notified. Commission Comments: Fisher: "This is meant to prevent theft within the leased aquaculture site. Without a list of authorized individuals the shellfish division has no record of the people allowed in the area and therefore enforcement actions will occur."