REMINDER
Apponaug Cove Quahog Transplant Into Greenwich Bay Shellfish Management Area
Thursday May 19th
- The transplant will occur between 8 A.M. and 12 P.M. bags will be handed out at Safe Harbor Cowesett marina in Apponaug Cove at Dock A. The bag limit will be determined by the number of participants on the day of the transplant. Any participants with new bags available to use during the transplant are encouraged to bring them for use during the transplant.
- Participants will be paid $15 per 50-pound bag and will be responsible for dumping the clams into the respective management area adjacent to Apponaug Cove.
- The Narragansett Bay Commission will be paying the transplant participants and asks that anyone who has not participated in a transplant within the past three years to please complete a W-9 form in advance to submit to their staff. Link to the form: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw9.pdf
- Licensed shellfishermen wishing to participate in the transplant should report to the on-scene DEM enforcement patrol boat by 8 A.M. on the day of the transplant. The officers will collect licenses to facilitate accounting.
- The transplanted shellfish will be dumped into the Greenwich Bay Shellfish Management Area and will be unavailable for harvest until December 2022.
Below is a map of the transplant area outlined in red. Clams will be transplanted from Apponaug Cove south of a line at the narrows north of Dickerson’s Marine, Inc at 41.69N 71.45W to 41.69N 71.45W and north of a line located to the south of Mary’s Creek at 41.69N 71.45W to 41.69N 71.44W
All harvested clams will be transplanted into the northern section of 8A (red and orange lines on the map) between the shellfish closure line at 41.68N 71.45W to 41.69N 71.43W and a line from Chepiwanoxet point 41.67N 71.44W to the shellfish closure line at the end of Capron Farm Dr. 41.69 N 71.43W
Please direct any questions to Anna Gerber-Williams at the Division of Marine Fisheries anna.gerberwilliams@dem.ri.gov
Thank you.
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