2025 SESSION

HOUSE SUBSTITUTE

25106085D

HOUSE BILL NO. 2782

AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE

(Proposed by the House Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources

on ________________)

(Patron Prior to Substitute—Delegate Simonds)

A BILL to require the Board of Wildlife Resources to amend regulations relating to creel limits for blue catfish.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. That the Board of Wildlife Resources shall amend 4VAC15-320-25, Creel and length limits, of the Virginia Administrative Code to remove the one-fish daily limit for blue catfish longer than 32 inches in the tidal waters of the James River and its tributaries downstream of the freshwater and saltwater lines at Hog Point and College Creek and the tidal waters of the Rappahannock and York Rivers and their tributaries below the fall line.