Chap. 400.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3171 of the Code of Virginia.
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Approved March 20, 1924.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-one hundred and seventy-one, of the Code of Virginia, be amend-
ed and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 3171. (1) It shall be unlawful for any person to use a
pound net, head or pocket or a mullet net (that is under two hundred
yards long) having a smaller mesh than two inches, stretched measure,
after having been tarred, for the purpose of catching food fish. Nor
shall any haul seine or mullet net be longer than five hundred yards
in length, unless authorized by the commission of fisheries, and if two
hundred yards long, or over, shall not have mesh less than three inches
stretched measure and no mullet net shall be deeper than forty meshes,
but the provisions of section (1) shall not become effective and in force
until two years after the passage of this act.

(2) The commission of fisheries shall have the power to deny use
of any stake net, troll net or new device when in its judgment the net
or location is seriously detrimental to other fishing interests.