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(6) That the leasing of the right to collect pearl oysters be offered periodically 

 in conjunction witli the lease of the chank fishery ; that the lease be for a 

 term of either three or five years. 



B. — Windoio-pane Oysters. 



(a) Teach the lads of the coast villages both swimming and diving. 



(h) Watch for the occurrence of a large bed of mature oysters, and then 

 endeavour to lease the fishery of the bed to a Karachi or local contractor. 



(c) Stipulate in any lease made, and also by formal proclamation, that no 

 window-pane oysters under four inches and a half in longest diameter may 

 be brought ashore under penalty ; that any undersized shells which may 

 be found in the course of fishing be put on one side and relaid on the 

 bottom convex side dowmvards, in a specially demarcated area adjacent 

 or convenient to the fishing ground. 



{d) When once the industry be established, it will be preferable that the lease 

 of the fishery be for terms of either three or five years, rather than for a 

 single year, as the former arrangement gives the renter a deeper interest 

 in the prosperity of the fishery, and also gives him a chance to recoup loss 

 sustained in a bad initial season. 



C. — The Chank Fishery. 



(a) The chank and pearl oyster fisheries to be leased in conjunction whenever 

 possible, and to be for periods of either three or five years. 



{b) That the fishing grounds be divided into four or five sections, as maj^ 

 be convenient, and that these be closed to fishing in rotation for stated 

 periods. Thus, if the grounds be divided into the five sections of (1) west 

 coast, (2) Okha Point district, (3) Adatra shore, (4) islets and banks off 

 Beyt Harbour, (5) Beyt Island, including Hanuman Dandi and Chindi and 

 other reefs, each in turn would be forbidden to the lessee for a period of, 

 say, two years. At the end of this time the section would be reopened to 

 fishing, and the section next in rotation closed in its turn for a similar 

 length of time. 



(c) All chanks small enough to pass through a circular aperture of two and 

 a quarter inches diameter, in a gauge made for the purpose, to be returned 

 alive, under penalty, to the sea at the end of each day's fishing. To sell, 

 or offer for sale, such undersized shells to be made an offence punishable by 

 fine. Gauges to be kept by the local officials at the fishing and sale 

 villages. 



