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WELLFLEET Shellfish Constable Nancy Civetta was dressed in layers on a recent Saturday at the Wellfleet Town Pier. Her head was covered in a hood, her face was masked and her hands were gloved as the wind whipped off the harbor.
She was inspecting product for the shellfish farmers market that she helped initiate this past winter. Bags of razor clams, little necks, cherrystones and oysters were gathered in tubs in a refrigerated van. Civetta had to give her approval before they were passed out to more than 100 customers waiting patiently in line in their cars.
Civetta has been the town’s shellfish constable for only 3½ years. So, when the Massachusetts Shellfish Officers Association recently announced her selection as Shellfish Constable of the Year for 2021, she said, she was surprised and humbled.