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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt:...whereby their interests could be protected" at one of the large canning plants the superintendent stated that they did not wish to handle small clams, as in the end they had proven very expensive. After reviewing the situation it was decided to be to the best interest of the clam fishery to proceed under the Public Daws of 1917. Chapter 281, Sections 64 and 65, under which the upland owner may give his consent to have a State Reservation located on the flats adjoining his land for the period of three years, these sections are as follows: Sec. 64. Authorized selection of proper locations for experiments in propagation of shell fish. The commissioner of sea and shore fisheries may from time to time, as his judgment may determine select proper locations below low-water mark on the coast of Maine for the propagation of oysters and quahaugs, and between high and low-water mark for the propagation of clams, cause the same to be properly stocked with oysters, quahaugs, and clams, and erect proper and sufficient marks or bounds to indicate the locations thus made. But this section shall not be construed to authorize the taking of fiats, which by the colonial ordinance of sixteen hundred and forty-one are possessed by the adjacent upland owners, without consent of such owners and the payment of proper damages to such owners for such taking. Sec. 65. Locations protected for three years. No person shall dig, fish for, take or carry away any oysters, quahaugs or clams within any location so selected, for a period of three years after such location was stocked as aforesaid, without the permission in writing of the commissioner of sea and shore fisheries; nor shall any person wilfully injure, deface, destroy or remove any such bounds or marks, nor tie or fasten any...