Sengekontacket Pond will be closed to shellfishing for another summer, Edgartown selectmen announced at their weekly meeting on Monday.

In a letter to the selectmen, shellfish constable Paul Bagnall said he was told by the state Division of Marine Fisheries of the closure at a meeting in New Bedford last week. Mr. Bagnall said the state ordered the closure in order to gather more data to determine whether rainfall closures will be necessary for the pond. The pond has been closed on and off to summer shellfishing since 2007 due to fluctuating bacteria levels.

The closure begins June 1.

“This whole thing has been very frustrating to me,” Mr. Bagnall said yesterday.

The selectmen were less than pleased with the announcement.

“This all ties into the Massachusetts Estuaries study which we pay for, which causes us nothing but problems,” selectman and newly appointed board chairman Arthur Smadbeck said at the meeting.

In other business, the selectmen approved repaving to begin on five streets in town. Highway superintendent Stuart Fuller said Church street, Simpson’s Lane, Winter street, Morse street and North Summer street are all on deck for repaving.

Edgartown voters approved $30,000 at last week’s annual town meeting to repave the streets, with an additional $65,000 coming from the state.

“Can we start charging contractors money to put into our fund because they continue to tear up the road, maybe voting at [next year’s] town meeting to charge them a larger fee on excavation permits,” town administrator Pam Dolby asked. “Why should the taxpayers have to foot the bill?”

Mr. Fuller said it was something worth considering.

Meanwhile, last week selectmen said they will not allow a charter fishing boat from Hyannis to operate in the town harbor this summer.

It was a standing-room-only selectmen’s meeting, with charter fishermen packing the room to oppose the application by the Helen H. Deep Sea Fishing charter company. The company had approached harbor master Charlie Blair with a plan to operate day fishing charters from Memorial Wharf. But before the fishermen could even speak, the selectmen voted to deny the request.

“Whatever they were going to send, they won’t be sending it,” selectman and board chairman Margaret Serpa said.

The selectmen received many letters opposing the application, including from the director of the Edgartown Boys’ and Girls’ Club. “It is true that by allowing this company to operate out of Edgartown it will generate revenue for the town, but the majority of the company’s revenue will be leaving the Island for Hyannis each evening and not circulated back into the Island economy,” wrote executive director Peter Lambos.