Identifier: annualreport131415190newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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vering hundreds of acres of land well adapted to shellfishcultivation. (b) Great South Bay — Lands of Smith Heirs. Lying in Great SouthBay to the eastward of the lands above described are the lands known asbelonging to the Smith heirs, comprising about twenty-one square miles,or thirteen thousand four hundred and forty (13,440) acres, and includingsome of the best known oyster lands in the State. The attention of theshellfish planters throughout the country has been centered upon thislocality since information has recently been made public that these landshave been sold to a syndicate of well known oystermen. Such interest isunderstood when it is known that Great South Bay, and particularly theportion of that bay in question, is the natural habitat of the far-famedBlue Point Oyster, and that by law no person, firm or corporation may sellor offer for sale any oysters, or label or brand any package containing oystersfor shipment or sale, under the name of Blue Point Oysters other than
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CO o FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSIONER. 295 oysters that have been planted and cultivated at least three months in thewaters of Great South Bay. It is said that upwards of seven hundred andfifty thousand dollars ($750,000) worth of oysters in the shell, and one hun-dred thousand dollars ($100,000) worth of opened or shucked oysters areannually shipped from this portion of the bay. It has been the custom ofthe representatives of the Smith heirs to lease the lands under water, in theirdomain, to shellfish planters, and many of these leases have still more thanone year to run. The lands are used by the large planter possessing allthe requisite equipment for work upon an extensive scale as well as bythe poor bayman depending upon the labor of his own hands. All plantersare equally apprehensive that the sale of this large section of the bay por-tends the formation of an oyster trust with an incidental control of theproduct and of prices, and are anxiously watching for the development ofth

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