New Jersey Statutes 23:9-4. Common rights to fish
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 23:9-4
- Delaware river: means the waters of the Delaware river from the Pennsylvania shore to the New Jersey shore, or in the case of any tributaries or inland bays on the New Jersey side, to the mouths of those tributaries or bays. See New Jersey Statutes 23:1-1
- State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
The inhabitants of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania and of the state of New Jersey shall have and enjoy a common right of fishery throughout, in and over the waters of the Delaware river above and below Trenton falls, between low-water mark on each side of said river between said states except so far as either state may have heretofore granted valid and subsisting private right of fishery.