Chap. 61.—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 50]

Approved March 2, 1934

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 in-
spector 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 dollars; on each pount 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 ad-
ditional one hundred feet or fraction thereof, 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 horsepower, 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 tram-
mel 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 resi-
dent of the State of Virginia, catching blue fish by hand line, three dol-
lars; 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, but said device may be moved at any time
during the season for which the license therefor has been secured with
the approval of the said inspector without the payment of any additional
license. 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,
snd 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
ye guilty of a misdemeanor, which shall be punishable as such.