202 Report of the Board of Shell Fish Commissioners 



REGULATIONS. 



1. Any tongman licensed for the oyster season of 1906-1907 may tong, 

 between the 15th day of April and the 15th day of May, 1907, for oysters 

 in the above mentioned area. The oysters so tonged shall be culled 

 within the area hereby set aside for the purpose of excluding all shells, 

 which must be thrown overboard within said area upon the natural 

 rocks from which they were taken. All oysters valuable for planting 

 purposes, however, may be removed or taken during the period afore- 

 said whether above or below 2% inches in length. 



2. No boat shall be permitted to leave the area above mentioned 

 with a cargo, or part of a cargo of oysters, on board, unless the captain, 

 or other person in charge of the same, s s haii exhibit to the commander 

 of the police boat patrolling the said area, a contract of purchase for 

 the oysters so mentioned, signed by one or more of the lessees of land 

 in the State of Maryland leased for oyster culture under the provisions 

 of Chapter 711 of the Acts of 1906. A lis.t of said lessees shall be 

 furnished by the Clerk of the Shell Fish Commission to the commander 

 of the police boat, or boats, patrolling said area. 



3. No boat having a dredge or scrape on board shall be allowed to 

 take oysters in the area above mentioned. 



ACREAGE OF LOTS FOR LEASE. 



The Commission holds the opinion that, after the natural 

 oyster bars and crabbing bottoms have been surveyed and 

 charted and thus excluded from lease, the interests of oyster- 

 men and crabbers will not be placed in jeopardy by increasing 

 the acreage of barren bottoms which may be leased for the pur- 

 poses of oyster culture, and it therefore recommends that the 

 area which may be leased for this purpose in the territorial 

 limits of the counties be increased to 50 acres and in the waters 

 beyond the territorial limits of the counties to 500 acres. 



Oyster lots of the acreage now allowed if located near shore 

 can be cultivated and protected without great expense to les- 

 sees, but if located in the open waters of the Bay and sounds, 

 large seaworthy boats will be required for the work of both 

 planting and policing and the cost of such boats and the 

 expense of equipping and maintaining them is so great as to 

 make oyster culture on a small scale in such localities un- 

 profitable. 



