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spaces has been started. The number of accidents was RESPONSES 1998 up a little over the previous year,as was the number of 500 boating stops. The department has switched its bay 700 patrol boats over to the non-polluting four (4) stroke engines. We hope to switch over the lake patrol boats 800 very soon. With everyone's help,this upcoming boat- 500 Eer ing season we can have a safe and enjoyable time 4w while using our waterways. Please slow down and have respect for other boaters. Remember to please 200 help any boater in distress, as you would like to be ,W helped. Thank you. "I Cen"I North South Mutual Aid Respectfully submitted, District Perry Ellis Station Renovation Harbormaster t During 1998, I have had the pleasure of serving as a member of the Fire Station Building Committee. Report of the Thank you to committee members Elizabeth Pettie, Shellfish Department George Wezniack, Peter Thomas, Joyce Mason and Joseph Peltier, former members James Vaccaro and Benjamin Perry. This committee has worked very To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and the hard to provide a fire station that will provide full ser- Citizens of the Town of Mashpee: vice to your fire department. Estimated to cost 2 mil- lion dollars, this project will provide our community Soft-shell clams were the most abundant shellfish s with a facility that will serve Mashpee for many years in 1998, more than in 1997 with more seed setting in to come. The Town is currently working with the many areas. Quahogs were the next most plentiful, architect firm Wallace,Floyd Associates of Boston. It ` is my hope,that plans will be ready to present this pro- also with increased natural sets of seed. Scallop sea- son was just as bad as in recent years the with the total ject at the May 1999 annual town meeting in hopes of z a vote for construction funding. catch of only a few bushels, allfrom Waquoit Bay, despite the stocking of over 100'000 seed purchased t�. Thank you for your continued support to the by the Towns of Falmouth and Mashpee with state grant funds. Oysters continued to be very scarce. Mashpee Fire and Rescue Department as we continue to work to minimize loss and suffering within our The propagation program was again expanded in it communy. }� 1998 with the construction of a second upweller nurs- ery tank. One tank was used to grow 1,000,000 qua- Respectfully seed purchased with shellfish permit fees. The George W. Baker other tank was used to grow 300,000 oyster seed pur- e; Fire Chief chased with state grant of state funds. Oysters from . the previous 2 years of the propagation program are iAN` being held in bottom trays. Spawns from those oysters have set and grown in the estuaries, but the numbers Report of the are too low for harvest. An improved tray system was Harbormaster developed with a $10,000 state grant awarded to the ,i Shellfish Dept. and the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Council. k n To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and the Citizens of the Town of Mashpee: The number of shellfish farms in Mashpee more than doubled with the approval by the Board of What a great boating year it was; the weather and Selectmen of 5 new shellfish aquaculture licenses economy made it very busy on the waterways, both (grants). Spawns from large numbers of oysters grow fresh and salt. The ponds had heavy traffic both boat ing on the farms would produce spat carried by the and personal watercraft. The bays on some weekends tides to set around the bays with the potential to pro- looked like more boats than water. The mooring fields duce enough oysters for a fishery. of the town are full and a waiting list for mooring 124