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Common fishery

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

A fishing ground where all persons have a right to take fish.

Bennett v. Costae, 8 Taunt. 183; Albright v. Park Com'n. 68 N. J. Law, 523, 53 Atl. 612.

Not to be confounded with "common of fishery," as to which see Common.

Fishery laws

A series of statutes passed in England for the regulation of fishing, especially to prevent the destruction of fish during the breeding season, and of small fish, spawn, etc., and the employment of improper modes of taking fish.

3 Steph. Comm. 165,