Virginia Administrative Code (Last Updated: January 10, 2017) |
Title 4. Conservation and Natural Resources |
Agency 15. Department of Game and Inland Fisheries |
Chapter 260. Game: Waterfowl and Waterfowl Blinds |
Section 160. Great Hunting Creek and Dyke Marsh; floating blind area
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No license shall be issued for stationary waterfowl blinds on the Potomac River in Fairfax County adjacent to National Park Service Lands in the Great Hunting Creek and Dyke Marsh areas. Waterfowl hunting in Commonwealth waters adjacent to the above mentioned lands shall be by licensed floating blind only. Such floating blinds must be attached securely to a post or buoy affixed to the river bottom by the department, and are limited to one floating blind per post at any time. Hunters in licensed floating blinds may hunt from designated locations during legal shooting hours on Thanksgiving Day and on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays during the open seasons for hunting waterfowl in Virginia. Blind sites shall be occupied on a daily first-come basis, such sites to be occupied no earlier than 4 a.m. or later than one-half hour after sunset. All such blinds shall be removed each day.
Historical Notes
Derived from VR325-02-24 § 20, eff. October 15, 1990; amended, Volume 11, Issue 04, eff. December 14, 1994.