CHAPTER XXXIX. 



OYSTER FISHERY LEGISLATION. 



PRINCIPLES OF STATE RELATION TO FISHERIES IMPORTANCE OF 

 FISHERY STATISTICS EXTENT AND VALUE OF THE FISHERY 

 INDUSTRY PHASES OF LEGISLATION THE EARLIEST ACT OF 

 PARLIAMENT RELATING TO OYSTER FISHERIES OTHER ACTS 

 -BRIDGER V. RICHARDSON COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY, 1833 

 PIRATICAL DREDGING ON EMSWORTH HARBOUR THE FRKNCH 

 CONVENTION, 1839 OYSTER BEDS CONSERVATORS CONVEN- 

 TIONS CONVENTION ACT OF 1844 LAWS AND REGULATIONS 

 POWER GIVEN TO THE BOARD OF TRADE RESTRICTION OF 



DREDGING CLOSE TIME FOR OYSTERS " SOME REMARKS ON 



THE OYSTER FISHERIES ACT, l866" ACT OF 1 868 THE THREE- 

 MILE LIMIT MODE OF PROCEDURE TO ESTABLISH PROTECTION 

 ACT OF 1877 SPAWNING BEDS, GROUNDS, AND PLACES 

 ACT OF I8S8 CLOSE TIME IN IRELAND TWOFOLD OBJECT OF 

 CLOSE TIME PROFESSOR HUXLEY ON CLOSE TIME DREDGING 

 V. OVER-DREDGING THE POLICY OF GRANTING CONCESSIONS 

 OF PUBLIC GROUNDS TO PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS OR COMPANIES 

 CONCLUSION OF CHAPTER. 



THE object of fishery legislation, as of all other economical 

 enactments, is to make a lasting and advantageous use of 

 the waters containing valuable food-fishes, and to place 

 this interest in its proper relation to all the other industries. 

 . . . As, according to Roscher, every industry rests on 

 scientific, technical, and economical principles, which are 



