HomeMy WebLinkAboutHSAB June 21 2011 -Maruine dept-
Steve heck intern
Released 10 million scallop larvae – reklased
Going to release 40 million
Continuinue water quality
Putting out spawning cages – bend swapping out
Peter boyce oputt ouyt elevated scallop traps that blue
claw crabs can get to
New business –
Steve Estabrooks –
-wants money for scallop project
-summer research project
-ospradium organ in scallop
-discovered 135 years ago
-no one knows what it does
-might be involved in reproduction
-can determine quantity – possibly sperm
-she would sue the electron microscope at MLB in
woodshole – part of an on goiong project
-nexxt year, they would test
-mainly expenses would be transportation to and from
and for renting to microscope
-it will tell us the cellular structure – they need to know
what the morphology – they think that some of the
nerves are tied to the abductor muscle and help it swim
-next summer, they would do a spawn to see if this is the
case – then they would cut out this organ to check it
-did a little prelim test – she put scome scallops in a
bucket of sperm to see what happens – to see if they
sperm attaches to this organ
-5-0 unanimous in the positive
Meeting schedule July 12 and Aug. 9
5-0 approved –
do the minutes