Section 9-12-35 Cultivation of public reefs; transplantation of oysters and shells. - Alabama Statutes

Section 9-12-35

Cultivation of public reefs; transplantation of oysters and shells.

During the closed season, as defined by order of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, the Director of the Marine Resources Division, under the direction and control of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, shall employ boats, crews and laborers and shall cultivate the public reefs of the state and shall dredge the oysters in the Alabama waters from places where they are too thick and shall spread them on reefs where they are too thin, and the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, in cultivating the reefs, transplanting and spreading oysters and shells, may expend such sums as it may deem proper. In taking seed oysters, care shall, however, be used so as not to injure or destroy the merchantable oysters on the reefs from which they are taken, and the same shall, unless it is practicable and safe to dredge, be tonged from the "cooner" or seed reefs.

(Acts 1936-37, Ex. Sess., No. 169, p. 192, § 11; Code 1940, T. 8, §133.)