[SEMCO] Educational Presentations at Wellfleet OysterFest

[Melissa Lowe Cestaro]

SPAT and Mass Audubon have teamed up again this year to offer several
educational presentations as part of the 15th annual Wellfleet
OysterFest.

 

The special presentations below are FREE and open to the public and held
at the Wellfleet Public Library. Seating is available on a first come,
first served basis.

 

Lecture: Oyster Reef Restoration

Saturday, October 16, 10:30 a.m.

 

Mass Audubon's Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary worked with the Town of
Wellfleet, The Nature Conservancy, NOAA, and other partners to establish
an oyster reef habitat in South Wellfleet on the sanctuary's tidal flats
with the goal of studying how such a reef is impacted by natural
mortality, disease, and harvest. The reef's ecological benefits to the
area are also being studied. Bob Prescott and Mark Faherty of Mass
Audubon will share information on how the project is progressing.

 

Film Screening and Discussion: "The Fish Belong to the People"

Saturday, October 16, 3-5 p.m.

 

This short documentary is about fishermen struggling to keep their
generations-long way of life intact in Port Clyde, Maine. It follows a
group of local fishermen as they work to become stewards of their
fishery. Their cooperative creates an environmentally-friendly operation
in order to save their access to fishing grounds and develops new ways
of fishing, experimenting with innovative gears and fishing practices.
On land, they retool how their catch is sold, marketing their fish as a
high-quality local product that comes fresh off the boat and straight to
the public. Ultimately, it is the consumers who have the choice to find
out where their seafood comes from and support local, family-owned boats
to ensure sustainable seafood for the future. "The Fish Belong to the
People" film screening will be followed by a conversation with filmmaker
Will Hyler, fisherman Justin Libby and Jessica Libby, manager of Port
Clyde Fresh Catch, the country's first Community Supported Fishery.

 

Lecture: Update from the Gulf

Sunday, October 17, 11 a.m. 

 

While the Gulf coast is thousands of miles away from the Cape's
shoreline, information gathered from studying the immediate and
long-term impacts of the oil spill, especially in relationship to the
fishing industry and biology of coastal ecosystems, is valuable across
borders. Judy McDowell, Senior Scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institute will shed light on what concerns scientists have for that
region and what studies are currently being conducted or planned for the
near future.

 

 

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Melissa Lowe, Education Coordinator 
Mass Audubon's Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary 
PO Box 236, South Wellfleet, MA 02663 
mlowe at massaudubon.org 
508-349-2615, ext 107 

Protecting the Nature of Massachusetts 
www.massaudubon.org/wellfleetbay 

 

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