Chap. 317.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3168 of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, relating to license to catch fish. | [H B 238]

Approved March Z5, 1932

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

Section 3168. Every such resident who shall apply for license to
catch or take fish from the waters of the Commonwealth or the waters
within the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth, shall pay to the oyster
inspector of such district a specific license tax, which shall be in lieu
of all taxes levied upon such persons for taking and catching fish or
for selling the product thereof as follows: On each sail vessel fishing
with purse net of not more than four hundred meshes deep, seven
dollars and fifty cents; on each sail vessel fishing with purse net of
more than four hundred meshes deep, thirty-seven dollars and fifty
cents; on each steam vessel fishing with purse net, one hundred and
fifty dollars; on each power boat of not over twenty horsepower,
fishing with purse net, fifteen dollars; on each power boat of over
twenty horsepower, fishing with purse net, one hundred and fifty dol-
lars; on each pound net, four dollars and fifty cents; on each float or
stake gill net of six hundred feet in length and under, one dollar and
fifty cents ; and for every additional one hundréd feet or fraction there-
of, thirty-five cents; on each thresh net, or skirt net or similar device,
one dollar and fifty cents; on each fyke net head, weir, or similarly
fixed device, one dollar; on each haul seine, operated by motor boat
power not exceeding five-horse, or by hand, for market or profit, four
dollars and fifty cents; on each drift haul net attended by motor boat
exceeding five horse-power thirty dollars; but no steamboat shall be
allowed to fish such net; on each haul seine hauled by windlass, with
horse or mule power, or other power than hand or steam, thirty dollars ;
on each haul seine operated by steam power, seventy-five dollars; on
each sturgeon gill net or trammel net, four dollars and fifty cents; on
each sturgeon sweep net or haul seine, thirty-seven dollars and fifty
cents; for every person not a resident of the State of Virginia, catch-
ing blue fish by hand line, three dollars; and provided no net of any
kind shall be used for catching blue fish; and inspectors issuing said
licenses shall furnish to the persons to whom said licenses are issued,
a number or registration mark, to be placed by the fishermen on their
boats or fixed fishing devices. If the license be for a fixed fishing
device the holder of said license shall fasten the said register mark
or number securely to one of the off shore stakes of the said fishing
device; and if the license be for a haul seine, drift net, purse net or
similar fishing device, the holder of said license shall fasten said
register mark or number securely on the starboard prow of the boat
used in fishing said device.

This and the two preceding sections shall not apply to fishing on
streams above tidewater.

For issuing such license in each case herein specified, there shall be
a fee of fifty cents paid by the licensee, in addition to the said license
tax, and which fee shall be turned over to the commissioner, and
covered into the public treasury, to be appropriated, as provided by law,
for the benefit of the seafood industry.

Any person violating the provisions of this act or any of them shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, which shall be punishable as such.