Bourne mass clamming license

Below is a list of Cape Cod towns that offer clamming licenses for visitors, along with information on their permits, available days, and contact info. The three low tide columns represent the three sides of Cape Cod.

Low Tide Times By Town Below is a list of Cape Cod towns that offer clamming licenses for visitors, along with information on their permits, available days, and contact info.

Select your clamming date: Go! Wednesday, Saturday. Tides for Pleasant Bay. All days. Tides for Sesuit Harbor. Tides for Wellfleet. Tides for Aunt Lydia's Cove. Not available online. Tides for Sandwich Marina. When flags are displayed as red or no flag at all all shellfishing is prohibited in the areas as shown on the map. A permit is required for taking eels, sea worms or shellfish from the coastal waters of Eastham. Call Permits are effective June 1 to May Permits for non-resident recreational shellfishing are sold at Town Hall, Monday to Friday, a.

Limitations: Quahogs may be caught year-round; scallop season of November 1 to the end of March. Regulations and maps and seasonal limits are distributed when a permit is purchased. Recreational shellfish permits are issued for the period of January 1 through December Permit is issued for the holder and his or her immediate family under age Shellfish, eels and seaworms harvested with a recreational permit may not be sold.

Purchase permits at the Harbormaster office at 48 Marion Road, Wareham ext. Licenses may also be obtained by mail to the address above with proof of residency and payment in full. Please include a self addressed stamped envelope. Seasonal licenses are in effect June 1through September 1. You may buy a permit if you own land in Mashpee or live in Massachusetts. Permits are issued at the Town Clerk's office. Shellfishing Locations: Shellfishing is allowed up to the high tide shoreline, except in areas closed because of contamination.

Refer to the shellfishing maps. Harvest of quahogs, soft-shell clams, scallops in season , mussels and razor clams is allowed. The taking of oysters is prohibited. Catch limits are established for each species and can be found in the regulations. Shellfishing maps. Shellfishing regulations. Anyone over the age of 14 must have a license to take shellfish. Fishers under age 14 must be with a licensed adult. Purchase licenses at the police department, 4 Fairgrounds Road, from 8 a.

Rules: License holders will be given information on shellfishing, closures, tide chart and any other information they may need. The species most commonly sought are quahogs, mussels, eels, oysters, scallops, and soft shell clams steamers.

Permits are in effect from February 1 to January 31, General regulations may be picked up at the tax collector's window in Falmouth Town Hall. Information on shellfishing locations; See approved shellfishing locations and phone for information on closures. During the summer months they are sold at the front desk of Town Hall, 70 Main Street. Call ahead for hours to buy licenses at Annual Shellfish licenses run from April 1 to March This entitles the purchaser and their family to go out once in a week window and get a limit of shellfish.

This license does not apply to scallops. For example, the closures at the end of Clarks Point in New Bedford, and East of Mishaum Point in Dartmouth are permanent closures because of municipal sewage treatment facility discharges in those areas.

Other areas like Sippican Harbor in Marion and West Falmouth Harbor in Falmouth are closed because of elevated bacteria levels or high densities of boats moored during the summer.

Go to our Current Shellfish Closures page for more information. Because of the hard work of Buzzards Bay municipalities and the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries to address stormwater and other pollution problems, the acreage of permanently closed shellfish beds in Buzzards Bay declined dramatically during the s.

The Buzzards Bay NEP helped contribute to this effort through our grant and technical assistance programs.

However, recent trends heavy been less positive, and through most of the s, only modest reductions occurred in the reduction of areas permanently closed. At the end of however, the Massachusetts opened 1, acres of outer New Bedford harbor, which has been a particular boom to the Fairhaven shellfish fishery.

Go to our Current shellfish bed closures page to learn more. Coastal Water Quality Protection in the Massachusetts Coastal Zone CZM is working with federal and state agencies, local officials, industry representatives, environmentalists, and the public to develop enforceable measures to restore and protect coastal waters from nonpoint source NPS pollution, which is currently the number one pollution problem in U.

NPS pollution occurs when contaminants are picked up by rain water and snow melt and carried over land, in groundwater, or through drainage systems to the nearest water body.

These reports produced by David Belding in the early 20th century are of interest to anyone studying the historical changes of fisheries in Massachusetts. Note that the spelling for quahog differed at the time. Belding, D. A report upon the scallop fishery of Massachusetts. The scallop fishery of Massachusetts: including an account of the natural history of the common scallop. Reprinted in and , possibly with a shortened title.