The Martha’s Vineyard Shellfish Group, Inc. is a non-profit organization comprised of the shellfish departments the six Island towns. For over thirty years, the Group’s community-based resource management program has sought to preserve and expand the Island’s traditional shellfisheries. Key to this effort has been the operation of a solar-assisted shellfish hatchery, the application of innovative aquaculture technology and a continuing vigilance to improve and maintain the good surface water quality crucial to a viable shellfish industry.

The Martha’s Vineyard Shellfish Group can be contacted for questions, public tours, t-shirt orders, and donations by writing to either :

The Martha’s Vineyard Shellfish Group
P. O. Box 1552
Oak Bluffs, MA 02557
Phone us at : 508.693.0391