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Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies is pleased to announce the third
lecture in the new Chase Miller Policy Forum.</font></span></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><font size="3">On
Tuesday August 21, Owen Nichols, Director of the Center’s Marine Fisheries
Research program, and Henry Lind, retired Shellfish Biologist and Director of
the Town of Eastham Department of Natural Resources for the Town of Eastham, will
present <strong><em>“Drawing Lines in the Sand: Mapping and Managing Community Aquaculture
Development.”</em></strong> <span style> </span></font></span></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><font size="3">The
lecture will take place at 7 pm at the Chatham Community Center, 702 Main
Street, Chatham. </font></span></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Owen
Nichols, Director of the Center’s Marine Fisheries Research program, works to
foster collaboration and understanding between commercial fisheries and
scientists, and conducts cooperative research and education with a focus on
scientific and policy issues confronting Cape Cod’s fishermen and
aquaculturists. He is a<span style> Research
Assistant and PhD candidate in the Department of Fisheries Oceanography at the
University of Massachusetts</span>.<span style> </span>His
current research focus is the distributional ecology of squid and finfish and
implications for fishery management. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></font></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Henry Lind worked for 35 years as
the Shellfish Biologist and Director of the Eastham Department of Natural
Resources. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">He
developed and ran a successful shellfish propagation/nursery and hatchery
program for the Town and worked cooperatively with other town shellfish
officers, expanding the use of aquaculture to increase the public </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">the supply of shellfish in Cape Cod
waters.<span style> </span>Henry was a founding member and
the current president of the Eastham Conservation Foundation and is on the
Advisory Board of AmeriCorps Cape Cod. He has been the instructor for a
multi-week course: <i style>Fundamentals of
Shellfish Farming: Practical Tools, Tips & Techniques</i>, sponsored by the
Southeastern Massachusetts Aquaculture Center, Cape Cod Cooperative Extension
and the Woods Hole Sea Grant Program.</span></font></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><font size="3">The
Chase Miller Policy Forum is a series of free lectures and discussions designed
to educate the public on the role of science in public policy as it relates to
the marine environment. This forum was made possible by the generous support of
Linda B. Miller, PhD, a long-time patron and member of the PCCS Board of
Directors.</font></span></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><font size="3">For
more information about these and other Chase Miller Policy Forum presentations,
please contact Pat Hughes, Director of Marine Policy at the Provincetown Center
for Coastal Studies, at 508 487 3623 x121 or email <a href="mailto:phughes@coastalstudies.org">phughes@coastalstudies.org</a></font></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><font size="3"></font></span> </div>
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