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2020 Code of Virginia
Title 28.2 - Fisheries and Habitat of the Tidal Waters
Chapter 3 - Finfish
Article 1. Licenses
- § 28.2-300. License application to fish with certain nets
- § 28.2-301. License fee for fishing in tidal waters
- § 28.2-302. Commercial fishing pier; license fee; penalty
Article 1.1. Saltwater Recreational Fishing
- § 28.2-302.1. Recreational license required
- § 28.2-302.1:1. Fisherman Identification Program
- § 28.2-302.2. Recreational license fee; cooperative program
- § 28.2-302.2:1. Special combined individual sportfishing licenses
- § 28.2-302.3. Virginia Saltwater Recreational Fishing Development Fund established
- § 28.2-302.4. Virginia Recreational Fishing Advisory Board established
- § 28.2-302.5. Exemptions to saltwater recreational fishing license
- § 28.2-302.6. Temporary license
- § 28.2-302.7. Recreational boat; reporting of catch
- § 28.2-302.7:1. Reissuance of licenses for recreational boats
- § 28.2-302.8. Headboat or charterboat; rental boats
- § 28.2-302.9. Commercial fishing pier
- § 28.2-302.10. Special lifetime saltwater recreational fishing license; permanently and totally disabled persons
- § 28.2-302.10:1. Lifetime saltwater recreational fishing licenses for residents and nonresidents
Article 2. Taking of Fish, Net, and Device Restrictions
- § 28.2-303. Taking and sale of sturgeon prohibited; penalty
- § 28.2-304. Repealed
- § 28.2-305. Size of mesh and length and depth of certain nets; penalty
- § 28.2-306. Use of certain fishing devices in certain waters; penalty
- § 28.2-307. Length of fixed fishing device; gill nets; penalty
- § 28.2-308. Setting of gill nets in oceanfront; penalty
- § 28.2-309. Distance nets may extend across body of water or channel; prohibition; regulations; penalty
- § 28.2-310. Trotline prohibited on ocean side of Eastern Shore; penalty
- § 28.2-311. Chickahominy River in Charles City; penalty
- § 28.2-312. Rappahannock River and certain of its tributaries; penalty
- § 28.2-313. Killing fish by means of explosives, drugs, or poisons; possession; penalty
Article 3. Restrictions on Trawling
- § 28.2-314. Trawl nets and drag nets prohibited; sale of fish; penalty
- § 28.2-315. Fishing with trawl net within three-mile limit; license fee
- § 28.2-316. Trawling boat not granted license for other fishing device; penalty
- § 28.2-317. Prima facie evidence of violation; penalty
- § 28.2-318. Exemption for certain trawling activity
- § 28.2-319. Forfeiture of fishing gear, etc.
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