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Shellfishing meaning
fishing for shellfish
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Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), Division of Marine Fisheries and the Oak Bluffs Shellfish Department were subsequently informed of the situation, soon triggering a closure for all shellfishing as a public safety precaution.
The area will be closed to all shellfishing from April through October.
The select board agreed, setting the size limit at 18 feet for boats engaged in shellfishing on Lake Tashmoo.
The shellfish group also said there is evidence that the area is a critical nursery ground for channeled whelks, a $6 million Island industry, and that the project could threaten the comeback of a potentially lucrative shellfishing industry in the pond.
This was, at the time, higher than production in New York, Rhode Island, or Massachusetts. citation During this time, the Connecticut coast was known, in the shellfishing industry, as the oyster capital of the world.