1. Peconic Estuary Restoration
A SPAT-Assisted Project To Reclaim a Lost Scallop Population
Armand DeLuca ,Otto Schmid, and Kim Tetrault.
Southold Project for Aquaculture Training (SPAT),
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County Marine Program, Marine Environmental Learning Center, Southold, NY 11971

2. Southold Project in Aquaculture Training
SPAT
Southold Project in Aquaculture Training
SPAT History
Program began 2001
CCE sponsorship / Kim Tetrault
Community restoration effort

3. SPAT History ~200 member families pay dues Community Gardens
Monthly classroom seminars
Advisory committee
SPAT History

4. SPAT Volunteers Supply labor and Expertise
Logged 11,437 Volunteer-Hours in 2005
Hours equate to over $200,000 labor

5. CCE Involves the Community Stewards
SPAT provides trained aquaculture technicians and necessary labor.

6. Project initiated 2004 under grant from Suffolk County, L. I
Project initiated 2004 under grant from Suffolk County, L.I. legislature
Funding $1.8 M to support restoration project

7. Goal over 4 Years to Infuse 50 Million Scallops into Peconic Bay.

8. Project Managed by Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) and Long Island University

9. Long Island University
Data Collection
Spat collectors
Technical monitoring
Genetics
Water Quality
Food Supply
Survival Rate

10. Sanctuary Markers

11. Spat Collectors Catch Natural Spawn

12. Counting Spat

13. Cornell Cooperative Extension
Algae
Hatchery
Nursery
Grow out

14. CCE /SPAT Projects
Algae

15. SeaCap System Built Algae Room for SeaCap System
One of only 10 operating in the U.S.

16. SeaCap System

17. Major thrust on spawning scallops but also clams & oysters
Hatchery
SPAT hatchery supplements CCE hatchery
16 conicals for larval stage

18. Scallop Nursery
Built Nursery in 2005

19. Nursery Continuous drum filtration supplements bag filters.
Post-set in sieves located in raceways.
Ongoing raceway maintenance

20. Goose Creek Nursery
Spatkin Bridles

21. Scallop Barge

22. Operational Barge

23. Orient Harbor Grow out 2006
8 Submerged buoy lines-200 Meters each in Orient Harbor.
Allows navigation
6 & 12mm lantern nets
3-week maintenance cycle
Barge-serviced

24. Long line Design
2-500 lb mushroom anchors 1

25. Deploying Long Lines

26. Stocking 6 mm Lantern Nets 200 per tier

27. Attaching Nets to Long Line

28. Nets serviced with star wheel

29. Stocking 12 mm Nets for winter

30. 12 mm Lantern Nets 35 scallops per tier

31. Lessons Learned in 2006
Did not hit 10 million scallop seed goal for 2006
Post set issue lost 80% of juveniles
Due to dissolved oxygen and secondary
cilliated protozoan infestion.
East Hampton hatchery supplied 750,000 seed.
Need for alternate nursery as backup, better water supply.

32. Lessons Learned in 2006 Mooring lines shifted -500 lb anchors
4 yr project -mooring lines must be removable
Use like metals, no mixing galvanized
with stainless
Kinks to be worked out on long line system.

33. Continuing Education of SPAT Volunteers over the Winter Months