—upheld the jurisdiction of the State, and its authority to regulate fisheries, within a marine league from the coast.

Massachusetts has jurisdiction over waters within a marine league from the shore and has the constitutional power to control fisheries, whether the fish be migratory, free-swimming fish, or freemoving fish or fish attached to or embedded in the soil.

… State became themselves sovereign, and in that character the people of the several States held the absolute right to all navigable waters within their territorial limits, including the soil under them and the fisheries therein, for their own common use, subject only to the right of control and regu-lation of navigation which the Constitution of the United States reposes in the …

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