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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>77888</law_id><section_number>28.2-301</section_number><catch_line>License fee for fishing in tidal waters</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>28.2-241</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="28.2">Fisheries and Habitat of the Tidal Waters</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Tidal Fisheries</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="3">Finfish</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">Licenses</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Every applicant for a license to catch or take <span class="dictionary">fish</span> shall pay the following license fee or such fee as it may be subsequently revised by the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Authority of Commission to make regulations, establish licenses, and prepare fishery management plans; accept federal grants; enforcement; penalty for violation of regulation" href="/28.2-201/">28.2-201</a>:</p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> On each <span class="dictionary">pound net</span>, $25; <a id="paragraph-279296" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/28.2-301/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> On each stake gill net of 1,200 feet in length or under with a fixed location, $15; <a id="paragraph-279297" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/28.2-301/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> On all other gill nets up to 600 feet, $10; <a id="paragraph-279298" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/28.2-301/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="4"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> On all other gill nets over 600 feet and up to 1,200 feet, $15; <a id="paragraph-279299" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/28.2-301/#4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="5"><p><span class="prefix-number">5.</span> On each person using a cast net or throw net or similar device, $8; <a id="paragraph-279300" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/28.2-301/#5"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="6"><p><span class="prefix-number">6.</span> On each fyke net head, weir, or similar device, $8; <a id="paragraph-279301" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/28.2-301/#6"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="7"><p><span class="prefix-number">7.</span> For up to 100 <span class="dictionary">fish</span> pots or eel pots, $12; <a id="paragraph-279302" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/28.2-301/#7"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="8"><p><span class="prefix-number">8.</span> For over 100 but not more than 300 <span class="dictionary">fish</span> pots or eel pots, $20; <a id="paragraph-279303" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/28.2-301/#8"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="9"><p><span class="prefix-number">9.</span> For over 300 <span class="dictionary">fish</span> pots or eel pots, $50; <a id="paragraph-279304" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/28.2-301/#9"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="10"><p><span class="prefix-number">10.</span> For <span class="dictionary">fish</span> trotlines, $12; <a id="paragraph-279305" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/28.2-301/#10"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="11"><p><span class="prefix-number">11.</span> On each person using or operating a <span class="dictionary">fish</span> dip net, $6; <a id="paragraph-279306" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/28.2-301/#11"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="12"><p><span class="prefix-number">12.</span> On each <span class="dictionary">haul seine</span> under 500 yards in length used for catching <span class="dictionary">fish</span>, $29; or <a id="paragraph-279307" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/28.2-301/#12"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="13"><p><span class="prefix-number">13.</span> On each <span class="dictionary">haul seine</span> from 500 yards up to 1,000 yards in length used for catching <span class="dictionary">fish</span>, $88. <a id="paragraph-279308" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/28.2-301/#13"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 28-43; 1960, c. 517; 1962, c. 406, &#xA7; 28.1-48; 1966, c. 684; 1968, c. 748; 1972, c. 833; 1973, c. 21; 1976, c. 392; 1979, c. 274; 1981, c. 61; 1983, c. 307; 1990, c. 445; 1992, cc. 493, 503, 836; 1993, c. 11; 2009, c. 9.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
