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Students oyster spat11/1/2022 ![]() ![]() The price for membership is $500.00 per Year. Continuing membership at the Founding Member level.Presale ticket purchasing opportunity for all SPAT/OysterFest events.Access to exclusive private events every year.A private tour of a Wellfleet shellfish farm for your family and friends.Two tickets to an “Art and Oyster Crawl” of your choice. #STUDENTS OYSTER SPAT FREE#Benefits of Belding Society membership include a pair of tickets to OysterFest and its many exciting (and expanded!) programs, including free shellfish farm tours and OysterFest Art & Crawl tickets.īelding Society Membership will also include: ![]() 100 Founding Memberships at $500 a year are being offered, together with unique opportunities to participate in SPAT and OysterFest’s year-round social and entertainment activities. The Belding Society membership honors the aquaculture contributions and marine research of Cape Cod’s first marine biologist, who, over a career in Wellfleet spanning 60 years, provided invaluable advice to local shellfishermen and administrators, laying the foundation for the modern oyster and clam aquaculture industry. We are currently offering three membership levels. ![]() This work includes college scholarships to local students, support for the marine environment, and most recently, more than $100,000 in direct donations to local shellfishing families and food pantries during the recent Covid pandemic,” said SPAT’s board chair Nancy O’Connell. With these new memberships, we hope to pass the $1 million threshold in SPAT’s work by the end of the year. “As we enter a new era for SPAT and OysterFest, I can think of no better way to honor our nonprofit and its mission of continuing to preserve, protect, and promote Wellfleet’s shellfishing community. To celebrate its 22nd anniversary and the long-awaited restart of Wellfleet OysterFest, SPAT is offering oyster lovers its first-ever membership opportunities to support the area’s vibrant shellfishing community, its hard-working shellfish farmers, and to maintain the world-renowned celebrity of the Wellfleet oyster. With the purchase of a Belding Society Membership or a Golden Oyster membership, you will receive two tickets for OysterFest 2022, on October 15th and 16th. If you would like to make a donation to SPAT: Print Form or Online Form.OysterFest Presale Tickets Now Available! Over 1,000 people have taken part in this program and it continues to grow each year. Our volunteers maintain their own hatchery (the"SPAT Shack"), and nursery. In exchange for a minimal fee, all permits are secured and members may keep their oysters for their personal use. Volunteers and members are offered monthly workshops and provided with shellfish seed and necessary tools and supplies to grow their shellfish gardens either at their own waterfront or in the SPAT community garden. Reach an adult size when they release their spawn into local creeks and Grow minuscule shellfish (oyster, Crassostrea virginica) - in containment, away from predators, until they To augment the limited staff of the Cornell Marine Program, volunteers The SPAT program was created to encourage community members to become stewards of their environment and to restore shellfish to the bays. "Spat" is the word for the tiniest form of shellfish that has settled onto the place where it will live out its life. SPAT starts up in late spring and runs until about Thanksgiving time, when you can winterize your oysters. Our facility is closed on the weekends and holidays. SPAT does not operate on other days/times. Our hours of operation are Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings between 8 a.m. SPAT operates from the SCMELC (Suffolk County Marine Environmental Learning Center) at 3690 Cedar Beach Road, Southold, NY 11971. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest> SPAT Program ![]()
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