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The Mashpee Wampanoag Work With a Cape Cod Town to Restore Their Fishing Grounds

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Joshua Reitsma, a marine chemist at the nearby Woods Hole Oceanographic Institut ion , says this effluent is responsible for 80 percent of the Capes nutrient pollution, leading to algal blooms that blanket the surface in summer and fall to the bottom in winter. Quahog (littleneck) clams freshly caught off Cape Cod.