Chap. 79.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 39 of the Game, Inland Fish
and Dog Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to fishing.

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, Approved March 2, 1934

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-nine of the Game, Inland Fish and Dog Code of Virginia, as

amended by chapter three hundred and seventy-six, approved March
twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, be further amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 39. Unlawful to take or attempt to take, possess, sell or
transport fish except as permitted—Unless and until otherwise pro-
vided by a regulation of the commission, after a public hearing, in
accordance with the provisions of this act, it shall be unlawful for any
person to take or attempt to take any fish in inland waters other than
shad, herring or mullet, except by fishing with a hook and line or rod
and reel, held in the hand, or to catch, trap, take, capture, kill, attempt
to take, capture or kill, possess, offer for sale, sell, offer to purchase,
purchase, deliver for shipment, ship, cause to be shipped, deliver for
transportation, transport, cause to be transported, carry or cause to be
carried, by any means whatever, receive for shipment, transport or car-
riage, or export, or import at any time or in any manner any species
of bass or trout, or the carcass or any part thereof, except as specifically
permitted by this act and only by the manner or means and within the
numbers stated, except in the counties of Mecklenburg, Pittsylvania,
city of Danville, Charlotte, Campbell, Halifax, Amelia (except between
Vaughn’s pond and Meadsville dam), Brunswick, Caroline and King
George it shall be lawful to fish with “fish traps,” or “fish pots” and
haul seines in any and all streams and waters, except in Grassy creek
in Mecklenburg county, providing that no person shall catch fish with
“fish traps” or “fish pots” and haul seines to be sold; provided further
that it shall be unlawful in any and all of said counties to remove from
the waters thereof any bass, perch and trout caught with fish pots or
fish traps or haul seines, and any person so catching bass, perch and
trout shall immediately return the same to the waters. Any person
violating the provisions hereof by not returning bass, perch and trout
to the waters from which caught, shall be fined not more than ten
dollars for each offense. Provided, however, that the Commission of
Game and Inland Fisheries shall have the authority to close any streams
or rivers or parts of streams or rivers in said counties when same shall
be stocked with fish by said commission.