Report of the Board of Shell Fish Commissioners 07 



THE DEFINITION IN USE. 



In the foregoing pages the factors adopted by the Commis- 

 sion for use in applying the Goldsborough Definition of a 

 natural oyster bar to the grounds surveyed are enumerated and 

 the methods are given by which each factor has been deter- 

 mined. Practical illustrations, taken from the 'Office Record 

 of Examinations, are given below, showing the method of ap- 

 plying the definition. The first example is one of an oyster 

 ground which does not come up to the required standard; the 

 second is an example of a ground sufficiently well stocked with 

 undersized oysters to justify placing it on the charts as a 

 natural oyster bar, although marketable oysters were scarce 

 at the time it was surveved. 



