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intention of the above-named Acts, and for which they will 

 be prepared to consider applications : — 



1. Appropriations of moderate areas of unproductive 



sea bed or foreshore for the establishment of new 

 fisheries or local depots. 



2. Appropriations of areas of already productive ground 



for layings or depots. 



3. Concessions of exclusive fishery rights to owners or 



occupiers of existing fisheries, but within such 

 limits and conditions only as may make such con- 

 cessions beneficial to the public. 



4. Powers for regulating or restricting unlimited fish- 



ing on beds in cases where it is proved that such 

 fishing is carried on in so wasteful a manner as to 

 have the effect of exhausting the beds and dimin- 

 ishing the supply, without corresponding advan- 

 tage to the public. 

 The only ground for the concession of exclusive fishery 

 rights or restrictive powers over any portion of the sea- 

 shore is the expectation that by these means the supply of 

 oysters and mussels will be materially increased, and the 

 public thereby benefited. Such expectation must con- 

 sequently be shown to exist in all cases of Orders under 

 these Acts, and especially in the case of an Order affecting 

 an a ready productive dredging ground. 



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This in every case will require to be instructed, so as to 

 prevent invasion of the rights of others. 



By the Crown Lands Act, 1866 (29 & 30 Vict. c. 62, 

 §§ 7 to 25), the administration of the Crown rights over the 

 foreshore and bed of the sea, where such rights exist, are, 

 with certain exceptions, transferred to the Board of Trade. 

 The Crown is also the conservator of rights of navigation. 



The Board of Trade have intimated, that in cases where 

 an application for a fishery grant includes foreshore or sea 

 bed under iheir management, that Board will carefully 



