THE OYSTER FISHERY OF CONNECTICUT. 
497 
town clerk in the book kept by him for the record of applications, designations, and conveyance of 
designated grounds. Such public notice of said application to the superior court, and of the time and 
place of the return of the same, shall be given by said selectmen or oyster-ground committee as any 
judge of the superior court may order. It shall be the duty of, the selectmen of the town of Orange, 
and of the oyster committees of other towns, upon a written request so to do, signed by twenty electors 
of their respective towns, to make such application to the superior court within 30 days after receiving 
a copy of such written request, and said application shall be privileged, and shall be heard and dis- 
posed of at the term of said court to which such application is returned, in preference to other causes. 
All expenses properly incurred by such selectmen and oyster-ground committees in said applications, 
and the doings thereunder, and the fees of said committees so appointed bj court, shall be taxed by the 
clerk of said court and paid by the State upon his order. Any designation of ground for the planting or 
cultivation of shellfish, within the areas so established by such report of said committee, shall be void. 
Sec. 13. The selectmen of the town of Orange and the committees of other towns shall, at the 
expense of their respective towns, procure and cause to be lodged and kept in the office of the town 
clerk of each town, respectively, accurate maps showing the boundary lines of their said towns in the 
navigable waters of the State, and all designations of ground for the cultivation of shellfish hereto- 
fore made and that shall hereafter be made within such boundaries, and shall number said designations 
on said maps, and shall cause to be designated on said maps all natural oyster, clam, and mussel beds 
lying within their several towns, respectively, as the same shall be ascertained by said report of said 
committees so recorded in said towns, as hereinbefore provided. 
Sec. 14. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed, but this act shall 
not .affect any suit now pending. 
Approved, April 14, 1881. 
ANALYSIS OF ARTICLE. 
Page. 
Introductorynote 461 
Personnel, wages, etc 462, 463 
1. Number and nationality of persons employed 462 
2. W ages 462, 463 
Vessels and boats 463^68 
3. Influence of improved vessels 463 
4. Historical 463 
5. The sharpie 463, 464 
6. Sloop boats 464 
7. Scows 464 
8. Sailing vessels 1 464,465 
9. Work done by boats and sail craft 465 
10. Introduction of steamers for oyster dredging. 465,466 
11. Increase in the steam oyster fleet 466 
12. Size of steamers 466 
13. Details of form, etc 467 
Historical notes 468-470 
The oyster grounds 471^75 
14. Location and extent 471,472 
15. Depth of water 472 
16. Designations 472, 473 
17. Value 473 
18. Taxes 473 
19. Public beds 474 
20. Area and products of natural beds 474 
21. Eestrictions about fishing 474,475 
22. Effect of the State policy 475 
Methods of cultivation, trade, fishing, etc 475^82 
23 Obtaining ground i 475 
24. Preparing the ground for a “ set” 475, 476 
25. Comparative merits of gravel, various kinds 
of shells, etc 476, 477 
26. The Poquonock method 477 
27. Suggestions 477 
28. Contingencies of the business, etc 478 
Bull. U. S. F. O. 89 32 
Page. 
Methods of cultivation, etc. — Continued. 
29. Caro required 478 
30. Classification of oyster-planters 478 
31. Growth of oysters, trade, etc 479 
32. Planting southern oysters 479, 480 
33. Export trade 480, 481 
34. California trade 481 
35. Disposition of shells 481 
36. Methods of fishing 481,482 
Unfavorable conditions, enemies, etc 482-486 
37. Injury by unfavorable weather 482 
38. Inj ury by mud 482, 483 
39. Stagnant water 483 
40. Freshets 483 
41. Destruction by starfish 483, 484 
42. Drills 484 
43. Other harmful agencies 484,485 
44. Suggestion's forremoving starfish from oyster 
grounds 485, 486 
Financial results 486-487 
45. In general 486 
46. Investments, etc... 486 
47. Profit and loss 487 
Statistical statements 487-491 
48. Table of persons employed 488 
49. Table showing capital invested and .annual 
expenditures 488, 489 
50. Quantities and values of material used and of 
seed planted in preparing oyster grounds . 489 
51. Estimated value ot oysters destroyed bj' ene- 
mies and other agencies 490 
52. Table showing the quantities and values of 
oysters and shells taken from private and 
public grounds 490,491 
Oyster legislation of Connecticut 491-497 
