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VOIAIN <br /> riri■r Fr.ka.r. <br /> rr f �+. r <br /> do <br /> Town of Mash.pee <br /> � <br /> . -- <br /> I. <br /> ■ '# Shellfish Commission 16 Great Neck Road North <br /> Mashpee, MA 02649 <br /> MINUTEA O MEETING January 8,, 2013 <br /> Attenden William Holmes, Stephen Marques, Peter Thomas & Richard York <br /> Marcus Hendricks <br /> Public Comment; None <br /> Convene M eetl n 7:00 PM <br /> Lkwroval of Minutes. 11-07-12 Postponed <br /> Shellfish Constable' Rem The courts ruled in favor of Board of Selectmen <br /> and Richard Cook in the suits against them. <br /> Old Business.- <br /> Shellfish Lkguaculture Regulations: clothing new. <br /> Shellfish Propagation: <br /> nnrn�.n �ninn - - <br /> Sponge Fouling:. Nothing never. <br /> Waguoit Bay Torn Line: Nothing new. <br /> Watershed Nitroon Mananement Plan/Shellfish Restoration: The <br /> Fi• •.�i•vl•4+1•i•ynn•1•h.••.rr•vvi•�v lrrrrrl�rr <br /> Watershed Nitrogen Management plan (CWMP) shellfish component plan for <br /> 2013 includes doubling of oyster seeding in the Mashpee Diver from 1 r 000 bags <br /> of remote set oyster seed to 2,000 bags, and an increase in quahog seed from 1 <br /> million to 6 million. AmeriCorps will construct'more oyster trays and quahog <br /> seed trays. The quahog seed will be grown in up e I legs then trays as usual, but <br /> an added.step will be to plant the seed under nets to grow larger than 1 inch <br /> before planting in the wild. At the larger size, predation by birds and crabs is not <br /> a problem. The plan in future gears is to seed and harvest over 20 million <br /> littleneck quahogs from the Great Fiver, Jehu Pond, Little Fiver, and Hamblin <br /> Pond area (DMF shellfish area SC 16) which will remove all of the nitrogen <br /> needed to restore water ual it i n that area according to the Massachusetts <br /> g g . <br /> Estuaries Project (MEP) draft report on Waquoit Bay. The shellfish component of <br /> the WNM P also includes nitrogen removal by the harvest of shellfish from the <br /> Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe's shel Ifi sh farm. <br /> York— Motion to support the proposed shellfish component of the Watershed <br /> Nitrogen Management Plan. Holmes -.-2nd. Vote— unanimous in favor. <br /> .08: 0 PM - Adjournment <br /> Respectfully Respeclully submitted, <br /> Richard perk, shellfish Commission secretary <br />