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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.  

/ Oyster growers, regulators, and environmentalists are banding together to call for more money and data to support the future of the state’s shellfishery. The 21-member task force known as the Massachusetts Shellfish Initiative has spent the last three years developing a plan to maximize the economic, environmental, and social benefits of shellfish resources, as the $45 million shellfish industry increasingly faces economic and environmental pressures. To protect the industry, the group is calling for a formally established Shellfish Advisory Panel to offer advice on legislative priorities...

The Wellfleet Select Board voted this week to reschedule both the town meeting and the upcoming town election. The town meeting will now be held June 26 with possible rain dates of June 27, 28 and 29. The town election has been postponed to June 30. The town meeting was originally set for June 5, but the board said that the budget for Fiscal Year 2022, as well as the town meeting warrant, still need to be finalized. The rescheduling also affords the Select Board more time to prepare for the meeting and the election after parting ways with Town Administrator Maria Broadbent, whose last day i...