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the Board of Trade to prohibit or restrict, on 

 local application, any dredging for oysters on 

 given banks. 



Another Act which must be included under the 

 present heading is the Sea Fisheries (Clam and 

 Bait Beds) Act, 1881. By it the Board of Trade 

 is empowered to protect bait beds from injury by 

 beam-trawls. Application for protection of this 

 kind must be made by some one representative 

 of the fishermen of the locality, or by town 

 councils, proprietors, or authorities maintaining 

 or regulating any harbour. 



Greater detail of these two Acts will also be 

 found in Appendix B. 



Appropriating and Regulating Orders. 



The following quotation from Part IIL of the 

 Sea Fisheries Act, 1868, sufficiently shows the 

 effect of granting Appropriating and Regulating 

 Orders. 



' 40. Where an Order of the Board of Trade under this 

 part of this Act confers a right of several oyster and mussel 

 fisher>', the persons obtaining the Order, in this Act referred 

 to as the grantees, shall, by virtue of the Order and of this 

 part of this Act, but subject to any restrictions and ex- 

 ceptions contained in the Order, have, within the limits of 

 the fishery, the exclusive right of depositing, propagating, 

 dredging, and fishing for, and taking oysters and mussels, 



