Survey of Oyster Bars, Somerset County, Md. 



BOUNDARIES OF NATURAL OYSTER BARS — continued. 



KITTS CREEK EAST. 



{Upper Pocomoke Sound — Chart No. 10.) 



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BOUNDARIES OF CRAB BOTTOMS. 



EXPLANATION OF DESCRIPTIONS OF BOUNDARIES. 



The laws providing for the survey of the oyster bars of Maryland also contain a 

 section which requires "an accurate survey of and delineation upon the maps and charts 

 aforesaid of all bottoms of the tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay where grass grows and 

 it is profitable to scrape for soft shell or shedder crabs, and shall have such bottoms 

 properly designated by permanent objects on the shore, as provided hereinbefore for 

 natural oyster beds, bars, and rocks, which said crabbing sections shall be exempt from 

 leasing for oyster culture." 



The crab bottoms of Somerset County are the first ones to be surveyed in Mary- 

 land, " and as far as known such a survey is altogether a new problem which differs b in 

 many ways from that of a survey of oyster bars. 



In a general way it can be stated that the boundaries of the crab bottoms as estab- 

 lished by the Maryland Shell Fish Commission and delineated on the "Charts of Oyster 

 Bars," published by the Coast and Geodetic Survey, are confined to waters between the 

 1 -fathom contour (6 feet depth of water) and the shore line. Therefore, in most cases 

 the mean low water line of the shore has been adopted as an inner boundary for the 



Anne Arundel County has no crab bottoms within the meaning of the law. 



6 See pages 69 to 70 of "First Annual Report of Maryland Shell Fish Commission" for description 

 of "Survey of crabbing grounds." 



