1. Sandy Macfarlane Coastal Resource Specialists ICSR 2008
MUNICIPAL SHELLFISH RESTORATION: FORTY YEARS OF EXPERIMENTATION AND PRODUCTION ON CAPE COD, MA.
Sandy Macfarlane
Coastal Resource Specialists
ICSR 2008

3. CAPE COD, MA Varying shellfish regulations Each town responsible for
15 Individual municipalities
Varying shellfish regulations
Each town responsible for
propagation and management within its borders
Tourist-based economy regionally
Most towns have commercial wild, commercial aquaculture and recreational shellfish interests

4. Towns bought quahaug spawning stock from Cape Cod Bay or contaminated relays from the New Bedford area

5. Early soft shell clam transplants using a single harrow

6. Mechanized plowing for clam transplants

7. Using plowing and netting to try to catch a set of seed clams

8. A Boston-bound barge entering the Cape Cod Canal ran aground on rocks, spilling 175,000 gallons (700,000 liters) of diesel fuel into the bay (in September 1969). Evidence … suggests the effects of oil spills could be indefinite. Thirty years after the Massachusetts catastrophe, significant oil residues remain in local salt marsh sediments, according to researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

9. Hatchery seed quahaugs first shipped from North Carolina

10. Floating sand-box rafts

11. Diverse raft designs

12. Bottom Culture

13. Land-based facilities

14. Spawning
Sieving larvae

15. Phytoplankton and larval culture

16. Inexpensive Gear

17. Upwellers using free jelly buckets with tight-fitting lids

18. Upwellers proved to be more space-efficient than floating sand-filled rafts

19. Program Expansion

20. Conventional, professional plumbing
Space for education/training

21. Mass
Algae
Culture

22. Quahaugs or hard clams: the workhorse of shellfish propagation efforts

24. Soft shell clams
Bay Scallops
American oysters

25. Harwich Shellfish Facility

26. Heunz Proft and their space-saving upweller array

27. Local High School Intern

28. The switch from traditional quahaug culture to oysters

29. Field Trials – catching spat and grow-out

30. Grow-out

31. Floating bags

32. Bay Scallops

34. Transplanting hatchery seed
Enhancing a public resource

35. MUNICIPAL SHELLFISH FACILITIES
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36. HATCHERIES AND UPWELLERS
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37. IMPROVING BARREN AREAS
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38. Public Fishery

39. Tourists and residents both enjoy shellfishing

40. LICENSING COMMERCIAL AQUACULTURE
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41. NECESSARY INGREDIENTS FOR RESTORATION
SOCIAL CLIMATE
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