By Paul Sylvain 

Representatives from Manomet Conservation Services, of Plymouth, Massachusetts, and Portland-based Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI), at the urging of Sunrise County Economic Council’s Tora Johnson, met with the Machiasport Selectboard on Oct. 27, to discuss possible research and mapping of the town’s clam flats. 

While the reaction to the proposal was mixed on the three-member selectboard, the town’s shellfish conservation committee chairman was openly skeptical of what such a project would actually accomplish.