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1 <br /> WITC SHELLFISH GRANT HEARING PAGE 4 <br /> 5/18/77 ' <br /> a reality, that private residents would have access to a few buckets � . <br /> I <br /> of shellfish with the permission of the WITC. <br /> V. POCKNETT: I don't think there is anything wrong with it myself. <br /> That' s my opinion. Will this be open to everybody else? <br /> G. BENWAY: No. f <br /> t W. HURLBURT: Will the passageway between Gooseberry Island and <br /> Punkhorn Point remain open to the public to use? ' <br /> R ` V. POCKNETT: Of course. That' s a dead area as far as shellfish <br /> is concerned. Maybe oysters. <br /> MR. NELSON:. That' s a good place for blue crabs. <br /> pF, V. POCKNETT: We want them all out of there. They damage the . <br /> shellfish. <br /> MR. NELSON: That wouldn' t eliminate the crabbing then? <br /> V. POCKNETT: I don' t think so. Anybody can crab the whole area. <br /> R. COURTEMANCHE: There are stiff fines if anyone is found <br /> y i <br /> 4 trespassing on a grant. Usually the fines are triple indemnity <br /> three times as much as a normal violation. You would have to seek <br /> permission. from the Council. to blue crab there because you are <br /> raking: the .bott6m.which is illegal- according._to the_.regulations._:. <br /> ` Grant doesn' t mean anyone owns anything there using a space of <br /> water to raise shellfish.' The shellfish belong to the Council. <br /> Cud It' s against the law to take shellfish without permission from <br /> the Council. <br /> G <br /> SELMN. MAXIM: Crabs are shellfish. I'm sure if we felt as though <br /> Council should make a concession, we can write anaddendum for crabs, <br /> air as shellfish. <br /> C. COURTEMANCHE: Are the boundaries of this grant going to be below the low water mark or above it? <br /> R. COURTEMANCHE: Low water mark. <br /> kat <br /> D. McCLOUD: The marshland which abuts Gooseberry Island, how <br /> much does the Town own? <br /> R. COURTEMANCHE: There's 50 ' easement to the low water mark. <br /> 4 That has changed due to natural erosion. <br /> 3 <br /> D. McCLOUD: You mean 50 ' from the low water mark back is what <br /> �.: the Town owns? <br /> ,. <br /> R. COURTEMANCHE: This is what the chart shows. <br />