Chap. 285.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2108 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as to unlawful fishing and to prescribe the time for catching bass.

Approved March 16, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-one hundred and eight of the Code of Virginia be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§2108. It shall be unlawful—

First. When unlawful to catch trout.—To kill or capture mountain or
brook or California or rainbow trout by any process whatever in any of
the waters of this State at any time, except that the board of supervisors
of any county may permit angling with hook and line under such con-
ditions and at such times and places as they may designate.

Second. When to catch river or pond bass.—To kill or capture a river
bass (commonly called black bass or black perch), or pond bass (com-
monly called southern chub), between the fifteenth day of March and
the fifteenth day of June of each year, or to shoot, spear, trap or net the
same at any time; or

Third. When to buy, sell or use same.—To buy, sell or make use of
mountain trout or black bass or pond bass within said prohibited periods,
respectively ; or

Fourth. Prohibition against use of substances injurious to fish.—To
use fish berries, lime or giant powder, dynamite, or any other explosive
substance for the destruction of fish, or knowingly or wilfully to cast any
noxious substance or matter into any watercourse of this State above
tidewater, by which fish therein may be destroyed, or to place or allow
to pass into the waters of the James or Appomattox rivers, or any of their
tributaries, any lime, gas tar, or refuse of gas works, injurious to fish; or

Fifth. Prohibition against injury to fish-boxes or eggs of fish__To
injure any box, trough or other contrivance, dam or pond of the fish
commissioner and his agents, or of any private individual engaged in the
artificial breeding of fish, or injure or molest any fish eggs or young fish
therein.

In view of the fact that the spawning season will begin very soon,
an emergency is created, and this act shall be in force from its passage.