Fishing

1916
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 7, 1898, entitled, an act to create the board of fisheries of Virginia, and define its duties and fix the salary of its members, as amended by acts approved February 21, 1900, February 15, 1901, and Mareh 12, 1908, respectively, so as to change the position of secretary of the commission of fisheries to that of shellfish commissioner, to define the duties and powers of the commission, to fix salaries and provide a fund for carrying out the provisions of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section 7 of section 2086 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
An ACT prescribing time for catching river or pond bass in the waters of Back Bay, in Princess Anne county, Virginia,
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 26, 31 and 32 of an act approved March 17, 1910, entitled an act to revise, amend and consolidate into one act certain laws relating to oysters, fish, clams, crabs, and other shellfish, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts of the general assembly, and any section or sections of the Code of Virginia in conflict with the provisions of this act.
An ACT for the protection of fish in Clinch river and its tributaries, in Russell county.

1918
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to prohibit the use of gill nets or seines, or the taking of fish therewith, in the waters of Dan river, any lake or pond formed thereby, or any back-water therefrom, within Pittsylvania county, and the corporate limits of the city of Danville, approved March 138, 1912.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to pro-hibit fishing within 500 yards of the mill dam across Clinch river at Speers ferry, Scott county, Virginia, approved March 13, 1912, as amended by an act approved March 24, 1914.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section 6 of section 2086 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2115 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended in relation to fishing by non-residents.
An ACT prohibiting boating, fishing, hunting, gunning and skating in, or over the waters of any lake, pond or reservoir used as, or in connection with, the public water supply of any city in this Commonwealth, having by the last United States census a population of more than nineteen thousand inhabitants, without the consent in writing of the city, or water supply company owning such lake, pond or reservoir, or entitled to use the waters of the same in connection with its water supply, and providing the penalties for the violation of the same.
An ACT for the rellef of oyster planters, from their rent of oyster planting grounds in the waters of the Commonwealth on account of “green gill” in the oysters.
An ACT to license persons to breed game, game fish and fur bearing animals for sale, prescribing regulations for such business and providing penalties for the violation thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section 2 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sub-sections 2, 6, 9, 10, and 13, of section 2086 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, approved March 22, 1916.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2105 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to fish ladders, as amended by an act, approved March
An ACT to repeal the special and local acts relating to the catching of fish in the waters of Russell county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2108 of the ‘Code of Virginia, as amended by acts approved respectively, March 16, 1910, and March 13, 1912, in relation to unlawful fishing.
An ACT to regulate the taking of fish from the streams in Scott county, and providing penalties for the violation of same and repealing all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to encourage the production of food fish.
An ACT to declare Russ’ Rock and Little Carter’s Rock, situated in the Rappahannock river, between the shores of Richmond and Essex counties, a natural oyster rock, bed and shoal and to include the same within the Baylor survey.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section 13 of section 2086 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to prevent the setting or using of fish nets or fish traps

1919es
An ACT to prohibit the taking of fish from the streams of Franklin county, except with hook and line.
An ACT for the protection of certain fish in the waters of Back bay, Fresh pond and Salt pond in the county of Princess Anne; and to prescribe a time and method for taking and selling in same.

1920
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3172 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to provide for the marking of boats engaged in the taking of fish, oysters, clams and crabs in the tidal waters of this State; for the marking of all pound nets, fike nets, purse nets, haul seines and other devices for the taking of fish in the tidal waters of this State; and to provide penalties for the violation thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 14 and 17 of an act entitle an act to provide a new charter for the town of Abingdon, Virginia, and to repeal all other acts with reference thereto, in effect January 22, 1900, as heretofore amended.
An ACT in relation to fishing in Middlesex or any other county.
An ACT for the protection of fish in the waters of Clinch river and its tributaries, in the county of Russell.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3292 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3184, 3187, 3188 and 3254 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT in relation to fish ladders in Floyd county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to prohibit the taking of fish from the streams of Franklin county, except with hook and line, approved September 4, 1919.
An ACT to provide for the protection of the wild life in the county of Clarke.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3194 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3173 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT for the protection of fish in Nottoway river in Southampton county.

1922
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3246 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3181 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3192 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to fish ladders in Meherrin river and the streams within the counties of Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Louisa, Buckingham, Halifax Pulaski, Montgomery and Grayson and those streams forming the boundaries of Halifax county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3240 of the Code of Virginia, relative to the taking of oysters from natural rocks, etc.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3184, 3187, and 3188 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 26, 1920.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3160 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3257 of the Code of Virginia and to repeal section 3163 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT licensing the taking or catching of scallops with scrapes from the public grounds of the Commonwealth, and providing for the designation of public scallop grounds.
An ACT to prohibit the use of giant powder, dynamite and other explosive substances injurious to fish, in any of the water courses of Lee county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3173 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 19, 1920.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to regulate the taking of fish from the streams in Scott county, and providing penalties for the violation of same and repealing all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith
An ACT to provide for the scizure by game wardens of illegal hshing and hunting devices in this State.
An ACT to amend an re-enact section 3292 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact subsection 13 of section 2086 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, approved February 19, 1918.
An ACT for the protection of fish in the Nottoway river and its tributaries in the counties of Sussex and Greensville.
An ACT to prohibit the sale of certain species of game fish in this State.
An ACT for the protection of fish in Buchanan county.
An ACT to limit the number of certain game fish that may be
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the protection of the wild life in the county of Clarke
An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection 4 of section 3299 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3206 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3202 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3325 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3205 and 3209 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the commissioner of the department of game and inland fisheries to issue non-resident hunting and fishing licenses to United States field inspectors of the bureau of biological survey, department of agriculture, and United States field inspectors of the bureau of fisheries, department of commerce.

1923es
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3181 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 28, 1922.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled ‘An act licensing the taking or catching of scallops with scrapes from the public grounds of the Commonwealth, and providing for the designation of public scallop grounds.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for the protection of fish in Buchanan county, approved February 25, 1922, and to provide for the protection of fish and game in said county.
An ACT to prohibit the taking of fish from the streams of Smyth county, except with hook and line, and to prohibit the taking of bass and trout from said streams during certain seasons.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for the protection of fish in Washington county, approved March 8, 1894, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “An act to regulate the taking of fish from the streams in Scott county, and providing penalties for the violation of same and repealing all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith,” approved March 16, 1918, as amended by an act approved March 15, 1922.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled “An act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to prohibit fishing within 500 yards of the mill dam across Clinch river at Speers Ferry, Scott county, Virginia, approved March 24, 1914,” as further amended by an act approved March 13, 1918.
An ACT to amend section 3209 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 27, 1922.

1924
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3196 of the Code of Virginia in relation to penalty and evidence in prosecutions for unlawful fishing.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3211 of the Code of Virginia in relation to fishing by non-residents.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3209 of the Code of Virginia in relation to non-resident fishing licenses.
An ACT for the protection of fish in the streams and water courses of Russell county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3192 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
An ACT for the protection of fish in the Blackwater river, in Prince George, Surry, Sussex, Isle of Wight, Southampton and Nansemond counties, Virginia; providing rules and regulations by which fish may be taken therefrom, and fines for violations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3205 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the protection of fish in the tributaries of the Pokoriae river.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3181 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3159 of the Code of Virginias
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3147 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the commission of fisheries, the commissioner of fisheries and the shellfish commissioner.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3171 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact subsections 4 and 7 of section 3299 of the Code of Virginia, sub-section 4 of which was amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 17, 1922, which section is in chapter 129 of the said Code on the subject of Potomac river statutes.
An ACT for the protection ot black bass in the county of Frederick.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3292 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act approved March 15, 1922.
An ACT to prohibit the taking, catching or killing of fish in the waters of the Dan river or its tributaries or any lake or pond formed thereby or the backwaters thereof in any manner, except angling, within Pittsylvania county and the corporate limits of the city of Danville, during the spawning season, from March first to June fifteenth, inclusive, and to provide penalties for the violation hereof.
An ACT for the protection of fish in the Nottoway river, in Nottoway, Lunenburg, Dinwiddie, Brunswick, Sussex, Greensville and Southampton counties, Virginia, and the tributaries of said river; providing rules and regulations by which fish may be taken therefrom, and fines for violations.
An Act to protect fish in the Tye river and its tributaries and in the Rockfish river and its tributaries in the county of Nelson.

1926
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3168 of the Code of Virginia in relation to license taxes for fishing in the waters of the Commonwealth.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act for the protection of fish in the Shenandoah river and its tributaries, approved March 12, 1906, and continued in force by section 3218 of the Code of Virginia, and to add an additional section to be known as section 4-a, relating to protection of fish in tributaries of the Potomac west of the Blue Ridge mountains.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3173 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to fishing.
An ACT to protect fish in the Tye river and its tributaries and in the Rockfish river and its tributaries in the county of Nelson, and in Piney river and its tributaries in the counties of Nelson and Amherst, and to repeal an act entitled an act to protect fish in the Tye river and its tributaries and in the Rockfish river and its tributaries in the county of Nelson, approved March 4, 1924.
An ACT prescribing the time for catching shad in the waters of the Commonwealth.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3233 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to resurveys of oyster-planting grounds.
AN ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to prohibit the taking of fish from the streams of Franklin county except with hook and line
An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection 3 of section 3299 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, the said section being in chapter 129 of the said Code on the subject of Potomac river statutes.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3240 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 28, 1922, in relation to the taking of oysters from natural rocks, etc.
An ACT to make applicable to certain waters of the Dan river and its tributaries the general laws of the State with respect to German carp.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3249 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to seed oysters.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3225 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to oyster grounds.
An ACT for the protection of fish and game in the waters of Lake Tecumseh and Red Wing lake, in Princess Anne county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3338 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to hunting, trapping, fishing and ranging upon the property of another.
An ACT for the protection of fish in certain streams in Alleghany and Craig counties.