The commissioner may issue such permission after due inspection and examination of the nature, species, quantity, source, location of proposed planting or lodging, and the condition of the shellfish and after the commissioner's determination that the same will not be detrimental to the native shellfish or to the shellfish industry of this State.
The permission shall specify the nature, species, quantity and proposed location of planting or lodgment of the shellfish.
Amended 1979, c.199, s.25; 2007, c.338, s.21.