CHAP. 200.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2108 of the Code of
Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled ‘an act to
amend and re-enact section 2108 of the Code of Virginia, as to unlaw-
ful fishing, and to prescribe the time for catching bass,” approved
March 16, 1910, so as to exclude from the operation thereof New
river, in Wythe county, Virginia, and to prevent the catching of fish
with seines in certain waters of said county.

Approved March 18, 1912.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section twenty-one hundred and eight of the Code of Virginia,
as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled ‘fan act to amend
and re-enact section twenty-one hundred and eight of the Code
of Virgina, as to unlawful fishing, and to prescribe the time for
catching bass,” approved March sixteenth, nineteen hundred and
ten, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§2108. 1. It shall be unlawful—

First. When unlawful to catch trout.—To kill or capture
mountain or brook or California or rainbow trout by any nro-
cess 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 conditions and at such
times and places as they may designate.

‘Second. When to catch river or pond bass.—To kill or cap-
ture a river bass (commonly called black bass or black perrh),
or pond bass (commonly called southern chub), between the
fifteenth day of March and the fifteen 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 know-
ingly 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 to allow to pass into the
waters of the James or Appomattox rivers, or any of their tribu-
taries, any lime, gas tar, or refuse of gas works, injurious to
fish; or, .

Fiith. 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 eges or young fish therein; provided, that it shall
be lawful to catch fish with seines in the waters of New river,
in the county of Wythe, but in none of the tributaries of said
river or other waters in said county.