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session of the M.B.T.A. Transit Police Academy. In propagation program. Barnstable County funded 20% addition, Detective Sergeant Scott Carline was pro- of the oyster and quahog seed, and funds from moted to the rank of Captain following restructuring Mashpee Shellfish permit fees covered the rest. The of the police department that eliminated the position Shellfish Constable issued 975 shellfish permits. of Deputy Chief. Captain Carline also attended poly- Water quality monitoring continued with collabora- graph school and became a certified polygraph exam- tion of the Town, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and finer after graduating first in his class. the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth SMAST. The police department completed another sum- I would like to again thank the Citizen's Police I mer overseeing Harbormaster operations. Only one Academy Alumni, TRIAD and neighborhood watch vessel crash was reported and radar patrols were con- groups for their continued efforts in assisting the i ducted on Mashpee-Wakeby Pond. With resources police department in various ways. within the police department and at Town Hall, docu- mentation of town moorings is underway. The moor- With public safety demands and a year of ings have been GIS mapped and numbered to coincide reduced personnel due to a hiring freeze, 2010 was with the areas they are assigned.Mooring numbers are another challenging year. However, the dedicated and i also in sequential order from north to south and west committed professionalism of members of the to east.The new numbers will allow the Harbormaster Mashpee Police Department continues to protect and and waterway assistants to better monitor the mooring serve all residents and guests to the best of our abili- fields for compliance with mooring regulations. ties. At the end of 2010, the 1916 Popponesset Respectfully submitted, Channel has been dredged again and reopened. The Rodney C. Collins reopening of this channel will be a benefit to all that Chief of Police use the bay. The Waterways Commission and Chairman Ken Bates deserve appreciation for facili- tating this project. i i Shellfish Constable Rick York reports that the exceptionally clear and sunny weather in 2010 heated the water in the estuaries to record high temperatures. Water temperatures were recorded as high as 85 degrees F in the bottom waters of Waquoit Bay during the first week of July. Temperatures up to 90 degrees F were observed at low tides in shallower waters such as the Mashpee River. The high temperatures caused the death of the majority of the soft-shell clams. i Oysters, quahogs and other species of shellfish toler- ate higher temperatures, and grew fast as they filtered i food from algae blooms. Quahogs continue to be the most abundant shellfish with the wild population sup- F plemented by seed from the propagation program. Large numbers of quahog larvae observed in Waquoit Bay in 2009 grew to increase the amount of seed in the bay in 2010.Oyster and bay scallop harvests were the result of seed from the propagation program because their spawns have not been successful for recruitment and the wild populations died out in the 1980's and 1990's respectively. Approximately 200,000 oysters were harvested in 2010. About 50 bushels of bay scal- lops were harvested from Waquoit Bay in 2010. The members of AmeriCorps Cape Cod helped with the I 107