MEXICAM FISHER! LEGISLATION 



APPENDIX LKI 



OEDfih REGULATING THE VHRIFICAHON OF STOCK 

 OF OYSTERS AT THE BBGIMNING OF THE CLOSED SEASONS 



Signed Septenber 17, ig'+O. Published October 5, l^O. 



ORDER: 



Article 1. Oyster permissionnaires are strictly forbidden, at the close of the open 

 season for this mollusc, to maintain or to hold in water deposits either natural or arti- 

 ficial, the stock of oysters they may have in their possession. 



Article 2. The above prohibition is also applicable to merchants, shippers or any 

 other person or organization having in their possession, for the purpose of profit, any 

 amount of oysters in the shell. 



Article 3. The stock of oysters in the possession of the permissionnaires shall be , 

 established by taking into account only those oysters which are definitely out of the 

 water in accordance with Articles 52 and 53 of the Fishery Regulation of January 20, 1933, 

 and these products shall be handled in accordance with Articles 5^ and 55 of that Regu- 

 lation. 



APP ENDIX LXII 

 REGULATION FOR THE SANIIAHY CONTROL 01 OYSTERS AND CLAMS 

 Signed February 21, 1941, Published March 6, 1941. 



CHAPTER I 

 GENERAL 

 Article 1. Tor the purposes of this regulation, there shall 'be considered: 



I. As oysters: the lamellbranch or bivalve nolluscs of the family Oatreldae. 



II. As clams: the bivalve molluscs of the families Mytilidae, Veneridae and Tellinidae. 



Article 2. For the exploitation, elaboration, processing, packing, packaging, transporta- 

 tion and sale of oysters and clams, a license must be obtained from the Department of Public 

 Health. That license shall be granted if the requisites mentioned in this regulation are ful- 

 filled. 



CHAPTER II 



ZONES OF PRODUCTION 



Article 3. There shall be considered as healthful areas those which in the opinion of 

 the Department of Public Health, may be exempt or protected from contamination by h umnn fecal 

 matter. 



The purity of the water shall be determined by the distance between the oyster beds and 

 the sources of contamination, by the dilution that the contaminated waters may have incurred, 

 and by the appropriate lapse of time for natural purification. 



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