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Table 2. Problems and proposed solutions for reducing impediments to sea scallop aquaculture in Massachusetts

• Create aquacultural category, develop process for state and federal interagency coordination, and devise coordinated government strategy for development of oceans
• Take regional approach to federal policy
• Study approaches in other countries
• Address and change role of regional fishery management councils over aquaculture, and allow states to coordinate aquacultural zones and management outside of councils
• Regulate scallop aquaculture through agriculture and farm bureau, not NOAA
• Create "permitting flow chart" for potential scallop farmers

• Create special state and federal zones, and manage management plans for aquacultural experiments
• Close some scallop beds and reserve them for aquacultural use

• Provide more start-up capital; broadcast examples of successes, especially of fishermen switching to aquaculture

• Federal government should identify and monitor sites in federal waters
• Develop policy between federal and state legislative support for siting

• Develop extension service for aquaculture (e.g., in Massachusetts Department of Food and Agriculture)
• Create and distribute education materials

• Consider other species, such as small clams that may be more appropriate due to growth rate
• Use existing recombinant DNA techniques to mitigate genetic escape from cultured stocks

• Develop cogeneration of products and waste material

• Develop consistency in regulation of gear (e.g., cages accepted for lobsters but not for scallops)
• Require structural adequacy of aquacultural gear

• Develop clear means of evaluating proposals for new aquacultural effort, with criteria for scoring

• Develop comanagement between aquaculture and fishing
• Develop better tracking technology to avoid conflicts with lobstering
• Separate boat time for aquacultural work from restrictions on boat time for harvesting/fishing