8 Wellfleet restaurants to recycle oyster shells
WELLFLEET A novel recycling program intends to return oyster shells to the ocean after the bivalves have been eaten, according to a release from the Massachusetts Oyster Project.
The project is working with the town of Wellfleet on an oyster shell recycling program involving eight local restaurants.
Restaurants will divert oyster shells from their regular trash to special containers. Project staff and volunteers will collect those containers four times a week, dumping them in a special oyster shell collection site managed by the town’s shellfish department and transfer station, the release said.
The shells will be aged for a year before they are spread around Wellfleet Harbor to create juvenile oyster habitat. By depositing oyster shells in intertidal areas of Wellfleet Harbor, a favorable environment can be created for oysters to settle and grow, the release said.
Cape Cod Times
WELLFLEET Johnny ‘Clam’ Mankevetch stood inside a Holbrook Oyster van earlier this month, bent over buckets of fresh shellfish. The hood of his sweatshirt was pulled over a bright orange cap. A mask covering his nose and mouth, he listened for Ryan Curley to call out the next customer order.
Fifty feet away, Curley, a member of the Wellfleet Select Board, checked in with the driver at the front of a long line of cars at the town pier. He found the name, then the order, then called out to Mankevetch.
“One scallop, one Cherrystone, one razor clam,” he yelled.
WELLFLEET Johnny ‘Clam’ Mankevetch stood inside a Holbrook Oyster van earlier this month, bent over buckets of fresh shellfish. The hood of his sweatshirt was pulled over a bright orange cap. A mask covering his nose and mouth, he listened for Ryan Curley to call out the next customer order.
Fifty feet away, Curley, a member of the Wellfleet Select Board, checked in with the driver at the front of a long line of cars at the town pier. He found the name, then the order, then called out to Mankevetch.
“One scallop, one Cherrystone, one razor clam,” he yelled.
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.
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