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Fishing

1968
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 28.1-88, 28.1-89, 28.1-91, 28.1-108, 28.1-116, 28.1-119, 28.1-124, 28.1-182, 28.1-184, 28.1-187, 28.1-160 and 62-2, as severally amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to oysters, clams and other bivalves, prohibited areas for patent tongs, oyster export tax, buyers’ and handlers’ licenses, assignment of planting grounds, owners’ rights in certain waters, lawful survey, culling and methods of catching oysters, dredging or scraping on private ground and theft of oysters, etc.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 28.1-48, 28.1-49 and 28.1-50, as severally amended, and 28.1-58 of the Code of Virginia, relating to licenses for fishing devices, size of fish that may be caught, taking of channel bass and rockfish and extension of nets across water; and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a section numbered 28.1-51.1, to prescribe the period when certain fishing devices not to be used an certain waters.
An Act to amend and reenact § 28.1-28 of the Code of Virginia, relating to authority of the Commission of Fisheries to make regulations.

1865/1866
An ACT imposing a Tax on Oysters
An ACT to prevent and punish Unlawful Hunting.

1966
An Act to authorize and direct the Commissioner of Fisheries to reestablish and maintain fish hatcheries, and to appropriate funds.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 28.1-18, 28.1-48, 28.1-61, 28.1-65, 28.1-78, 28.1-74, 28.1-87, 28.1-89, 28.1-91, 28.1-98, 28.1-109, 28.1-120, 28.1-124, 28.1-187, 28.1-189, 28.1-165, 28.1-167, 28.1-179, and 28.1-188, as severally amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to fish, oysters, shellfish and other marine life; and further to repeal §§ 28.1-75, 28.1-86 and 28.1-204 through 28.1-226 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the same subject matter.
An Act to amend and reenact § 28.1-59 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the taking of fish with purse nets, for certain purposes in certain tidal waters.
An Act to amend and reenact § 28.1-98, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to taxes on certain oysters and reporting requirements.
An Act to amend and reenact § 28.1-58, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the taking of fish with purse nets, for certain purposes in certain tidal waters.
An Act to create the Commission of Outdoor Recreation; to provide for the appointment, qualifications, terms of office and compensation of members thereof; to provide for the employment of certain agents and employees; to prescribe certain powers and duties of the Commission; to require departments, commissions, boards, agencies, officers and institutions of the State Government and political subdivisions thereof to cooperate with the Commission in certain respects; to give the force and effect of law to certain rules and to provide a penalty for violation thereof.
An Act to amend and reenact § 28.1-96 of the Code of Virginia, relating to carrying oysters out of State or buying for that purpose; permits required.
An Act to amend and reenact § 29-55.2 of the Code of Virginia, relating to trip fishing license for trout in certain areas.
An Act to amend and reenact § 29-65, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, to appointment of agents for sale of hunting, trapping and fishing licenses and other permits.
An Act to amend and reenact § 28.1-50 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the taking of channel bass and rockfish; prescribing limitations; and providing for confiscation and disposition of such fish taken legally.
An Act to amend and reenact § 27-54.1, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to certain acts which are unlawful where nary fire hazards exist; proclamations of Governor.
An Act to authorize the county of Rockbridge to expend certain funds and acquire certain property; and to dispose of such property under certain conditions.
An Act to amend and reenact § 29-148 as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the taking, possession, sale or transportation of fish.
An Act to amend and reenact Chapter 565 of the Acts of Assembly of 1962, approved March 81, 1962, to permit the taking of certain fish tu Montgomery and other counties by trotlines or laylines and to prescribe what batt may be used.
An Act to amend and reenact § 62-2.1, us amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to authority required for use of subaqueous beds.
An Act to amend and reenact § 28.1-97 of the Code of Virginia, relating to permits to buy or carry seed oysters from certain grounds.
An Act to amend and reenact § 28.1-116, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to rights of owner to waters within lawful survey.

1889/1890 Private Laws
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act approved May 14, 1887, as amended by chapter 355 of the acts of assembly of 1887-88, entitled an act to prevent the destruction of fish and to prevent the obstruction of the free passage of the same in the Dan river ator near Danville, Virginia.
An ACT to incorporate the Newport News fishing club
An ACT to prohibit fishing in the waters of Clinch river, in the county of Russell, for the period of two years (except with a hook and line or gig), or the poisoning or killing with dynamite.
An ACT to prevent obstruction of streams in the county of Mecklenburg.
An ACT for the protection of fish in Pittsylvania
An ACT to prevent the obstruction of the passage of fish in Cub creek.
An ACT to incorporate Lee district, in the county of Henrico.
An ACT relating to unlawful fishing in the tributaries of the Potomac river within the jurisdiction of Stafford, King George, Fairfax, and Alexandria counties.
An ACT to prohibit the catching of fish with nets in the Hawksbill creek, in Page county.
An ACT for the protection of fish in the counties of Lee, Wise, Dickenson, Buchanan, and Scott.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2088, 2084 and 2067, of the code of 1887, in relation to the fishing with pound-nets in the waters on the eastern side of the Chesapeake bay.
An ACT to incorporate the Metompkin fish and game associatian.
An ACT to facilitate the passage of fish in Black-water river, in the county of Franklin.
An ACT rein te suitable fish ladders upon the — across Goose creek, in the counties of Campbell and Bedford

1878/79
An ACT to repeal an act for the protection of fish in Powell’s river.
An Act to provide for the erection of suitable shoots for the passage of fish by the owners of mill-dams across the North Brauch of the Shenandoah river
An ACT for the protection of fish in certain waters of the commonwealth.
AN ACT to amend and re-enact the 7th section of chapter 212 of the Aets of 1876-77, for the protection of fish In the waters of the Commonwealth above Tidewater.
An ACT in relation to hauling seines, &e., in the waters
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 60th section of chapter 101, Code of 1873, for the protection of tetrapins and terrapin eggs
An ACT to protect oysters in the bay of Matchapungo and its tributaries.
An ACT to provide for the protection of fish in the Appomattox river
An ACT authorizing the renting of the ecourt-house of Prince Iidward county for lectures and exhibitions, and for other purposes.

1879/80
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act for the protection of fish in the waters of the commonwealth above tide-water, approved March 21, 1877, so far as applicable to the waters of the Roanoke river and its tributaries in the county of Roanoke.
An ACT to prevent obstructions to the free passage of fish in Smith’s river in the counties of Henry, Franklin and Patrick.
An ACT to prohibit non-residents taking fish in the waters of Virginia.
An Act appropriating fifteen hundred dollars to enable the governor to enforce the oyster laws in the waters of the Rappahannock river.
An ACT prohibiting the hauling of seines in the creeks
An ACT to prohibit the catching of oysters with dredges or instruments other than ordinary oyster-tongs within the waters of the commonwealth.
An ACT to repeal section 1 of an act entitled an act for the protection of fish in the waters of the Commonwealth above tide-water so far as applicable to the waters of the Pamunkey, the Mattaponi, and the Chickahominy and their tributaries.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 60, chapter 101 of the Code of 1873, for the protection of terrapins.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 of an act entitled an act to prevent obstructions to the free passage of fish in the streams of the state
An ACT to appropriate $3,000 for the purchase of the patent known as the McDonald Fish-Way.
An ACT for the protection of fish in the waters of the Roanoke and its tributaries east of the Blue Ridge.
JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the governor to place at the disposal of the civil authorities of Lancaster, Middlesex and Mathews counties arms and ammunition for the enforcement of the oyster laws.

1879es
An ACT to protect regularly hauled fishing shores in the counties of Accomac and Northampton.
An ACT to incorporate the Old Dominion Fishing and Yacht Club.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of chapter 100 of the Code of 1873, as amended by the act approved February 20, 1878, in relation to unlawful fishing.