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===Oysters{{anchor|Free Fishers of Whitstable Act 1793|Faversham Oyster Fishery Company Act 1840|Faversham Oyster Fishery Act 1930|Faversham Oyster Fishery Company Act 2017}}=== {{Infobox UK legislation | short_title = Free Fishers of Whitstable Act 1793 | type = Act | parliament = Parliament of Great Britain | long_title = An Act for incorporating the Company of Free Fishers and Dredgers of Whitstable, in the County of Kent, and for the better ordering and Government of the Fishery. | year = 1793 | citation = [[33 Geo. 3]]. c. 42 | introduced_commons = | introduced_lords = | territorial_extent = | royal_assent = 30 April 1793 | commencement = | expiry_date = | repeal_date = | amends = | replaces = | amendments = | repealing_legislation = | related_legislation = | status = | legislation_history = | theyworkforyou = | millbankhansard = | original_text = | revised_text = | use_new_UK-LEG = | UK-LEG_title = | collapsed = yes }} {{Infobox UK legislation | short_title = Faversham Oyster Fishery Company Act 1840 | type = Act | parliament = Parliament of the United Kingdom | long_title = An Act for granting certain Powers to the Faversham Oyster Fishery Company. | year = 1840 | citation = [[3 & 4 Vict.]] c. lix | introduced_commons = | introduced_lords = | territorial_extent = | royal_assent = 4 June 1840 | commencement = | expiry_date = | repeal_date = | amends = | replaces = | amendments = | repealing_legislation = Faversham Oyster Fishery Act 1930 | related_legislation = | status = repealed | legislation_history = | theyworkforyou = | millbankhansard = | original_text = https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/Vict/3-4/59/pdfs/ukla_18400059_en.pdf | revised_text = | use_new_UK-LEG = | UK-LEG_title = | collapsed = yes }} {{Infobox UK legislation | short_title = Faversham Oyster Fishery Act 1930 | type = Act | parliament = Parliament of the United Kingdom | long_title = An Act to incorporate and confer powers upon the Faversham Oyster Fishery Company to provide for the transfer to and vesting in that Company of the undertaking of the Company or Fraternity of Free Fishermen and Dredgermen of the Manor and Hundred of Faversham in the County of Kent to dissolve the said Company or Fraternity and for other purposes. | year = 1930 | citation = [[20 & 21 Geo. 5]]. c. lxxiv | introduced_commons = | introduced_lords = | territorial_extent = | royal_assent = 4 June 1930 | commencement = | expiry_date = | repeal_date = | amends = | replaces = {{ubli|Faversham Oyster Fishery Company Act 1840}} | amendments = {{ubli|Faversham Oyster Fishery Company Act 2017}} | repealing_legislation = | related_legislation = | status = | legislation_history = | theyworkforyou = | millbankhansard = | original_text = https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/Geo5/20-21/74/pdfs/ukla_19300074_en.pdf | revised_text = | use_new_UK-LEG = | UK-LEG_title = | collapsed = yes }} {{Infobox UK legislation | short_title = Faversham Oyster Fishery Company Act 2017 | type = Act | parliament = Parliament of the United Kingdom | long_title = An Act to provide for the alteration of the objects, powers and constitution of the Faversham Oyster Fishery Company; and for other purposes. | year = 2017 | citation = [[List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 2017|2017]] c. i | introduced_commons = | introduced_lords = | territorial_extent = | royal_assent = 27 April 2017 | commencement = | expiry_date = | repeal_date = | amends = {{ubli|Faversham Oyster Fishery Act 1930}} | replaces = | amendments = | repealing_legislation = | related_legislation = | status = | legislation_history = | theyworkforyou = | millbankhansard = | original_text = https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2017/1/contents/enacted | revised_text = | use_new_UK-LEG = | UK-LEG_title = | collapsed = yes }} Whitstable became famous for its native oysters produced by the three companies in the area: The '''Faversham Oyster Fishery Company''', the '''Seasalter and Ham Oyster Company''' and the '''Whitstable Oyster Fishery Company'''. Oysters have been farmed in Whitstable for centuries, but it was not until 1793 that the industry became highly regulated with the Act of Incorporation of the 'Company of Free Fishers and Dredgers of Whitstable' ([[33 Geo. 3]]. c. 42) and are all unusual in that they own the freehold of the seabed.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/781ea255-66d3-4c73-8243-02d5fcfe4879 |title=Whitstable Oyster Fishery Company |date=1724β1978 |others=<corpname>Whitstable Oyster Fishery Company</corpname>, <corpname>Company of Free Fishers and Dredgers, 1793-1896, Whitstable</corpname> |language=English}}</ref> But Whitstable oysters go even further back, almost two thousand years, to when the Romans discovered them and, regarding them as a delicacy, shipped them back live to Rome. They are a registered [[Protected Geographical Indication]] (PGI) product.<ref>{{Cite web |title= Product Specification "Whitstable Oysters" |url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5fd369628fa8f54d6249ea1c/pfn-whitstable-oysters.pdf |access-date=2023-01-02 |website=}}</ref> At these companies' peak in the 1850s, they were sending as many as 80 million oysters a year to Billingsgate fish market. By then the plentiful oyster had become the food of the poor. Unfortunately the native oyster population drastically declined in the first half of the 20th century and a combination of pollution, disease, overfishing and the introduction of diseases proved fatal to the industry by the middle of the 20th century. Pacific Oysters are now farmed on the foreshore at Whitstable, owned by the Whitstable Oyster Fishery Company on a commercial scale producing up to 300 tons of sustainable shellfish per year. The farm was the subject of an investigation by the Marine Management Organisation in 2016 after allegations about the racks causing safety issues and blocking navigation for watercraft and swimmers. This ended in two independent navigational risk assessments commissioned by the MMO that concluded that the risk posed by the presence of the oyster farm remains [[ALARP]] or lower (broadly acceptable) and that the oyster farmβs activities met the requirements of the exemption relating to shellfish propagation and cultivation under the [[Marine Licensing (Exempted Activities) Order 2011]] ([[SI 2011]]/409) as amended (Article 13).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Deployment of oyster trestles to the west of Whitstable Harbour |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/deployment-of-oyster-trestles-to-the-west-of-whitstable-harbour |access-date=2023-01-02 |website=GOV.UK |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.kentonline.co.uk/whitstable/news/oyster-racks-threatening-lives-118882/ |title=Oyster racks 'threatening lives' |date=15 January 2017 |access-date=4 March 2017 |archive-date=5 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170305042641/http://www.kentonline.co.uk/whitstable/news/oyster-racks-threatening-lives-118882/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>https://www.cefas.co.uk/publications/lableaflets/lableaflet31.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210131230628/https://www.cefas.co.uk/publications/lableaflets/lableaflet31.pdf |date=31 January 2021 }} P9</ref>
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