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§ 28.2-300. License application to fish with certain nets - Any person desiring to take or catch fish with any...
§ 28.2-301. License fee for fishing in tidal waters - Every applicant for a license to catch or take fish...
§ 28.2-302. Commercial fishing pier; license fee; penalty - A. The owner of a commercial fishing pier shall pay...
§ 28.2-302.1. Recreational license required - Except in areas under the jurisdiction of the Department of...
§ 28.2-302.1:1. Fisherman Identification Program - The Commission shall establish the Fisherman Identification Program, which shall...
§ 28.2-302.2. Recreational license fee; cooperative program - A. The annual fee for the saltwater recreational fishing license...
§ 28.2-302.2:1. Special combined individual sportfishing licenses - A. Residents and nonresidents of the Commonwealth may obtain: 1....
§ 28.2-302.3. Virginia Saltwater Recreational Fishing Development Fund established - There is hereby established a special, nonreverting fund in the...
§ 28.2-302.4. Virginia Recreational Fishing Advisory Board established - A. There is hereby established the Virginia Recreational Fishing Advisory...
§ 28.2-302.5. Exemptions to saltwater recreational fishing license - A. The following persons shall be exempt from the requirements...
§ 28.2-302.6. Temporary license - A. The Commission shall provide for issuance of a temporary...
§ 28.2-302.7. Recreational boat; reporting of catch - A. The owner or operator of a recreational boat used...
§ 28.2-302.7:1. Reissuance of licenses for recreational boats - The Commission shall provide for the reissuance of a saltwater...
§ 28.2-302.8. Headboat or charterboat; rental boats - A. The Commission may establish the sale of a fishing...
§ 28.2-302.9. Commercial fishing pier - A. The owner of a commercial fishing pier, as defined...
§ 28.2-302.10. Special lifetime saltwater recreational fishing license; permanently and totally disabled persons - A. Any resident who is permanently and totally disabled, as...
§ 28.2-302.10:1. Lifetime saltwater recreational fishing licenses for residents and nonresidents - A. Any resident or nonresident individual may apply for and...
§ 28.2-303. Taking and sale of sturgeon prohibited; penalty - Except as otherwise provided by regulation, it shall be unlawful...
§ 28.2-304. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2014, cc. 108 and 142, cl. 1.
§ 28.2-305. Size of mesh and length and depth of certain nets; penalty - A. It is unlawful for any person to use the...
§ 28.2-306. Use of certain fishing devices in certain waters; penalty - It is unlawful for any person to use any snatch...
§ 28.2-307. Length of fixed fishing device; gill nets; penalty - A. It is unlawful for any person to use a...
§ 28.2-308. Setting of gill nets in oceanfront; penalty - From the Friday immediately preceding Memorial Day through September 15...
§ 28.2-309. Distance nets may extend across body of water or channel; prohibition; regulations; penalty - A. It is unlawful to set or fish any net...
§ 28.2-310. Trotline prohibited on ocean side of Eastern Shore; penalty - It shall be unlawful to set a fish trotline on...
§ 28.2-311. Chickahominy River in Charles City; penalty - It is unlawful for any person to take or catch...
§ 28.2-312. Rappahannock River and certain of its tributaries; penalty - It is unlawful for any person to use any haul...
§ 28.2-313. Killing fish by means of explosives, drugs, or poisons; possession; penalty - A. It is unlawful to capture or kill any fish,...
§ 28.2-314. Trawl nets and drag nets prohibited; sale of fish; penalty - Except as may be provided in § 28.2-315, it is...
§ 28.2-315. Fishing with trawl net within three-mile limit; license fee - A. It is unlawful to catch fish, shellfish, or marine...
§ 28.2-316. Trawling boat not granted license for other fishing device; penalty - It is unlawful for any vessel, boat or other craft...
§ 28.2-317. Prima facie evidence of violation; penalty - Any vessel, boat, or other craft found in the waters...
§ 28.2-318. Exemption for certain trawling activity - Nothing in this article shall prohibit (i) the use of...
§ 28.2-319. Forfeiture of fishing gear, etc. - Any net, pot, or other fishing device or gear used...