Chap. 324.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2108 of the ‘Code of Vir-
ginia, as amended by acts approved respectively, March 16, 1910, and
March 13, 1912, in relation to unlawful fishing. [H B 419]

Approved March 16, 1918. >)" A J
fetish Tar gid!

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of. Virginia, That
section twenty-one hundred and eight of the Code of :Wirginia, as
amended by acts approved, respectively, March sixteenth, nineteen
hundred and ten, and March thirteenth, nineteen hundred and
twelve, in relation to unlawful fishing, be amended and re-enacted
30 as to read as follows:

Section 2108. It shall be unlawful—

First. When unlawful to catch trout.—To kill or capture moun-
ain or brook or California or rainbow trout by any process what-
ver in any of the waters of this State at any time, except that the
yoard of supervisors of any county may peru angling with hook
ind line under such conditions and at such times and places as they
nay designate.

Second. When to catch river or pond bass.—To kill or capture
, river bass (commonly called black bass or black perch) or pond
yass (commonly called Southern chub) between the fifteenth day
f March and the fifteenth day of June of each year, or to shoot,
pear, trap or net the same at any time; provided, that in the waters
f the Piankatank river in the counties of Middlesex and Mathews,
aid fish may be caught at any time except between the first day of
\pril and the fifteen day of June of each year.

Third. When to buy, sell or use same.—To buy, sell or make
se of mountain trout or black bass, or pond bass within said prohi-
ited periods, respectively; or
Fourth. Prohibition against use of substances injurious to fish.—
To use fish berries, hime or giant powder, dynamite, or any other
explosive substance for the destruction of fish, or knowingly or
wilfully cast any noxious substance or matter into any water-
course 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 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 en-
gaged in the artificial breeding of fish, or injure or molest any fish
eggs 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.

2. An emergency existing this act shall be in force from its
passage.