                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

SETTING OF GILL NETS IN OCEANFRONT; PENALTY (§ 28.2-308)

From the Friday immediately preceding Memorial Day through September 15 of each
year, gill net operators along the southern oceanfront boundary of the United
States Dam Neck Military Base south to the North Carolina border shall maintain
unimpeded breaks of 500 feet between adjacent rows of nets. Gaps between such
gill nets in the same row shall occur no less than every 2,000 feet. These gill
nets shall be set at a minimum of 400 feet seaward from the mean high-water
mark.
		A violation of this section is a Class 3 misdemeanor.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 28-46.1; 1954, c. 215; 1962, c. 406, § 28.1-52; 1964, c.
393; 1974, c. 97; 1990, c. 494; 1992, c. 836.