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Home » US Law » 2022 Code of Virginia » Title 29.1 - Wildlife, Inland Fisheries and Boating » Chapter 5 - Wildlife and Fish Laws » Article 4. Possession, Transportation, and Sale of Game and Fish

§ 29.1-536. Sale

When taken in accordance with the provisions of law or regulation, muskrat, opossum, rabbits, raccoon and squirrels may be bought and sold during the open hunting season only, but the hides, furs or pelts of fur-bearing animals legally taken and possessed, and the carcass of any fur-bearing animal may be sold at any time in […]

§ 29.1-537. Possession

When taken in accordance with the provisions of this title, each species of wild bird, wild animal or fish may be possessed at any time. Code 1950, § 29-155; 1987, c. 488.

§ 29.1-540. Carriage and shipment

A. When taken in accordance with the provisions of this title, wild birds, wild animals, or fish may be transported as follows: 1. By any person properly licensed, for lawful use in or out of the county or city where taken to another county or city in the Commonwealth or to another state during the […]

§ 29.1-541. Storage

It shall be unlawful for any person to store any wild birds, wild animals or fish if selling them is prohibited by law, except persons may store them in a bona fide domicile or in a licensed cold storage establishment. Any licensed cold storage establishment which receives any wild birds, wild animals or fish, where […]

§ 29.1-542. Importation

Live wolves or coyotes, or birds and animals otherwise classed as predatory or undesirable, may not be imported into the Commonwealth or liberated therein, or possessed therein, except under a special permit of the Board. Nonpredatory birds, animals or fish may be imported, but upon arrival in the Commonwealth, shall be subject to the laws […]

§ 29.1-543. Game and fish taken and packaged outside the Commonwealth

It shall be lawful to possess, store, transport, offer for sale, sell, offer to purchase, purchase and otherwise deal in any wild animal, bird, fish or any part thereof, which has been taken and packaged in a can, tin, pot or other receptacle outside the Commonwealth by any person, company or corporation duly licensed by […]

§ 29.1-543.1. Introduction, stocking, and release of blue catfish; penalty

A. It is unlawful for any person to introduce into or stock in waters of the Commonwealth, including private ponds or lakes, the blue catfish or its hybrids or to release any blue catfish or any such hybrid into any water body other than that in which it was caught. B. Any person who violates […]

§ 29.1-544. Dressing, packing and selling bobwhite quail

A. It shall be lawful for the licensee of a shooting preserve or his designated agents to dress, pack and sell bobwhite quail raised by him for use as food, under rules or regulations to be prescribed by the Board. B. It shall be lawful to sell mounted bobwhite quail in the Commonwealth that have […]

§ 29.1-545. Possession, sale, offering for sale or liberation of live nutria

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation to possess, sell, offer for sale, or liberate in the Commonwealth any live fur-bearing animal commonly referred to as nutria (Myocastor coypus). This section does not apply to employees of the Department of Wildlife Resources, U.S. Department of Agriculture, or U.S. Fish and Wildlife […]