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these regulations or may be subject to other state <br /> penalties including fines, imprisonment, and/or damages <br /> sought by the grantholder. <br /> 8) No person(s) shall have in their possession or take <br /> amounts of shellfish in excess of the daily or weekly <br /> limits set forth by the Board of Selectmen. <br /> Those limits are set forth as follows: <br /> i <br /> A. NON-COMMERCIAL CATCH LIMITS: <br /> 1) Soft-shell clams One peck per week <br /> 2) Quahogs One peck per week <br /> 3) Scallops (in season) One bushel per week <br /> 4) Razor Clams One peck per week <br /> 5) Mussels One peck per week <br /> B. COMMERCIAL CATCH LIMITS: <br /> 1) Soft-shell clams One bushel per day <br /> 2) Quahogs Three bushels per day, <br /> catch must be culled, <br /> before landing into <br /> chowder, cherrystone, and <br /> littleneck sizes. <br /> Total catch will not <br /> contain more than one <br /> bushel of littlenecks. <br /> Remainder of catch to be <br /> mixed cherrystones and <br /> chowders. <br /> 3) Scallops (in season) Ten bushels per day <br /> 4) Razor Clams One bushel per day <br /> 5) Mussels One bushel per day j <br /> Increases or reductions in catch limits may be subject to <br /> change. Changes will be posted and published according <br /> to policy. <br /> A "non-commercial" (family) shellfishing week begins at <br /> sunrise on Sunday and ends at sunset the following <br /> Saturday. <br /> A "commercial" shellfishing week begins at sunrise on <br /> Monday and ends at sunset the following Saturday. <br /> 9) SEED SHELLFISH - Shellfish are defined as seed if they <br /> measure less than the minimum harvesting size or other <br /> determination as set forth by the Commonwealth of <br /> Massachusetts. Those sizes are as follows: <br /> b <br /> a) soft-shell clams, and mussels - two inches in the 3 <br /> longest dimension of the shell. <br /> b) oysters - three inches in the longest dimension of the !' <br /> shell. <br /> c) scallops - must have a well-defined annual growth ring <br /> on the shell, regardless of the dimensions of the j <br /> i' <br /> 4 <br />