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to be preserved on it, for the purpose of restocking it, and the agents 

 appointed to watch over the beds having besides power to stop the 

 fishing, pending the promulgation of the order for stopping the fishing. 



4. The prefectoral orders ought only to contain the names of the beds 

 where fishing is allowed, it being useless to mention those on which it 

 is forbidden. 



5. When an oyster bed is found to be very productive, a portion 

 (either one-fourth or one-fifth of the whole area) should be reserved from 

 fishing as a fund for reproduction. This part should be marked off 

 with buoys, and dredging should be forbidden there. 



6. A vessel, or shore-boat, for guarding the fishing should, as far as 

 possible, take part in the dredging of an open oyster bed. 



7. No period of intermittence should be fixed for the dredging of an 

 open oyster bed ; the number of oysters that each fishing boat can take 

 should not be determined ; the number of boats of the quarter that can 

 take part in the fishing each day should only be limited for the sake of 

 order, and the carrying out of police regulations. 



8. The small oysters taken in the fishing in the territorial sea, or by 

 fishing on foot, can be placed in the establishments on the banks, and 

 transported from the regular parks to ponds, claires, &c. Those that 

 possess them can, in fact, dispose of them for their own interest. 



9. During the dredging of a productive bed, all shells, gravel, stones, 

 &c, should be thrown back on the bottom. All mud, sand, or vegetable 

 matter, and all other hurtful matters or animals, should, on the contrary, 

 be taken up with care, and kept in the boat, to be placed on sites for 

 that purpose on the shore. 



10. The dredging of all oyster beds incumbered with any matter or 

 thing disadvantageous to the growth, or attaching of the spat, should 

 be allowed until the bed is clean, nothing taken up being allowed to be 

 returned. 



11. The dredging of oyster beds of agglomeration, that is to say, 

 where there is never any production of spat, should be allowed from 

 the commencement to the end of the fishing season. 



12. The oyster beds, after being dredged, should be visited with care, 

 and such means of collecting the spat, as the water cannot carry away, 

 should be laid down, such as broken pottery, stones, clean cultch, &c. 



13. Classed oyster beds should be well watched during all the time 

 that the fishing is not allowed there. This surveillance should be ex- 

 ercised by the Fishery Inspectors and the fishermen themselves. 



14. Whenever a classed oyster bed is wholly bare, it should be well 

 watched, so that poaching cannot take place. 



15. Gathering oysters is authorized at all times, on all parts of the 

 strand, beyond the limits of classed oyster beds, as well as the reserves 

 created on the shore, or on private beds. It is only allowed on the 

 classed beds, when they are open to dredging. 



16. Those portions of the shore situated beyond the classed beds, and 

 which after the inquiries ordained by the decree of the 10th November, 

 1862, are recognised as being capable of being granted to private indi- 

 viduals, without any public rights, can be allotted to persons (either 

 fishermen or others) who apply for them, for the purpose of creating 

 parks, for the taking of spat, depots for small oysters, or claires, or ponds, 

 with a view to bettering the fish. 



17. The necessary permission can only be granted on the legal con- 

 ditions of revocability and danger, attached to concessions of the sort 

 given on the public maritime property. 



18. It is especially recommended to maritime authorities called upon 



