Virginia Administrative Code › Title 4 - CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES › Agency 20 - MARINE RESOURCES COMMISSION › Chapter 1090 - PERTAINING TO LICENSING REQUIREMENTS AND LICENSE FEES › Section 4VAC20-1090-30 - License fees

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
The following listing of license fees applies to any person
				  who purchases a license for the purpose of harvesting for commercial purposes
				  or fishing for recreational purposes during any calendar year. The fees listed
				  below include a $1.00 agent fee.
1. COMMERCIAL LICENSES
Commercial Fisherman Registration License
$190.00
Commercial Fisherman Registration License for a
							 person 70 years or older
$90.00
Delayed Entry Registration
$190.00
Delayed Entry Registration License for a person 70
							 years or older
$90.00
Seafood Landing License for each boat or
							 vessel
$175.00
For each Commercial Fishing Pier over or upon
							 subaqueous beds (mandatory)
$83.00
Seafood Buyer's License -- For each boat or motor
							 vehicle
$63.00
Seafood Buyer's License -- For each place of
							 business
$126.00
Clam Aquaculture Product Owner's Permit
$10.00
Oyster Aquaculture Product Owner's Permit
$10.00
Clam Aquaculture Harvester's Permit
$5.00
Oyster Aquaculture Harvester's Permit
$5.00
Nonresident Harvester's License
$444.00
2. OYSTER RESOURCE USER FEES
Any licensed commercial fisherman harvesting oysters
							 by hand
$50.00
For any harvester using one or more gear types to
							 harvest oysters or for any registered commercial fisherman who solely harvests
							 or possesses any bushel limit described in
							 4VAC20-720-80, only one oyster
							 resource user fee per year shall be paid
$300.00
On any business shucking or packing no more than
							 1,000 gallons of oysters
$500.00
On any business shucking or packing more than 1,000
							 but no more than 10,000 gallons of oysters
$1,000.00
On any business shucking or packing more than 10,000
							 but no more than 25,000 gallons of oysters
$2,000.00
On any business shucking or packing more than 25,000
							 gallons of oysters
$4,000.00
On any oyster buyer using a single truck or
							 location
$100.00
On any oyster buyer using multiple trucks or
							 locations
$300.00
Commercial aquaculture operation, on riparian
							 assignment or general oyster planting grounds
$50.00
3. OYSTER HARVESTING, SHUCKING, RELAY, AND BUYERS
							 LICENSES
Any person purchasing oysters caught from the public
							 grounds of the Commonwealth or the Potomac River, for a single place of
							 business with one boat or motor vehicle used for buying oysters
$50.00
Any person purchasing oysters caught from the public
							 grounds of the Commonwealth or the Potomac River, for a single place of
							 business with multiple boats or motor vehicles used for buying oysters
$100.00
For each person taking oysters by hand, or with
							 ordinary tongs
$10.00
For each single-rigged patent tong boat taking
							 oysters
$35.00
For each double-rigged patent tong boat taking
							 oysters
$70.00
Oyster Dredge Public Ground
$50.00
Oyster Hand Scrape
$50.00
To shuck and pack oysters, for any number of gallons
							 under 1,000
$12.00
To shuck and pack oysters, for 1,000 gallons, up to
							 10,000
$33.00
To shuck and pack oysters, for 10,000 gallons, up to
							 25,000
$74.00
To shuck and pack oysters, for 25,000 gallons, up to
							 50,000
$124.00
To shuck and pack oysters, for 50,000 gallons, up to
							 100,000
$207.00
To shuck and pack oysters, for 100,000 gallons, up to
							 200,000
$290.00
To shuck and pack oysters, for 200,000 gallons or
							 over
$456.00
To relay condemned shellfish from a general oyster
							 planting ground
$150.00
4. BLUE CRAB HARVESTING AND SHEDDING LICENSES,
							 EXCLUSIVE OF CRAB POT LICENSES
For each person taking or catching crabs by dip
							 nets
$13.00
For ordinary trotlines
$13.00
For patent trotlines
$51.00
For each single-rigged crab-scrape boat
$26.00
For each double-rigged crab-scrape boat
$53.00
For up to 210 peeler pots
$36.00
For up to 20 tanks and floats for shedding
							 crabs
$9.00
For more than 20 tanks or floats for shedding
							 crabs
$19.00
For each crab trap or crab pound
$8.00
5. CRAB POT LICENSES
For up to 85 crab pots
$48.00
For over 85 but not more than 127 crab pots
$79.00
For over 127 but not more than 170 crab pots
$79.00
For over 170 but not more than 255 crab pots
$79.00
For over 255 but not more than 425 crab pots
$127.00
6. HORSESHOE CRAB, LOBSTER, AND SHRIMP
							 LICENSES
For each person harvesting horseshoe crabs by
							 hand
$16.00
For each boat engaged in fishing for or landing of
							 lobster using less than 200 pots
$41.00
For each boat engaged in fishing for or landing of
							 lobster using 200 pots or more
$166.00
For each person commercial shrimp trawling
$100.00
7. CLAM HARVESTING LICENSES
For each person taking or harvesting clams by hand,
							 rake, or with ordinary tongs
$24.00
For each single-rigged patent tong boat taking
							 clams
$58.00
For each double-rigged patent tong boat taking
							 clams
$84.00
For each boat using clam dredge (hand)
$19.00
For each boat using clam dredge (power)
$44.00
For each boat using hydraulic dredge to catch soft
							 shell clams
$83.00
For each person taking surf clams
$124.00
Water Rake Permit
$24.00
8. CONCH (WHELK) HARVESTING LICENSES
For each boat using a conch dredge
$58.00
For each person taking channeled whelk by conch
							 pot
$51.00
9. FINFISH HARVESTING LICENSES
Each pound net
$41.00
Each stake gill net of 1,200 feet in length or under,
							 with a fixed location
$24.00
All other gill nets up to 600 feet
$16.00
All other gill nets over 600 feet and up to 1,200
							 feet
$24.00
Each person using a cast net or throw net or similar
							 device
$13.00
Each fyke net head, weir, or similar device
$13.00
For fish trotlines
$19.00
Each person using or operating a fish dip net
$9.00
On each haul seine used for catching fish, under 500
							 yards in length
$48.00
On each haul seine used for catching fish, from 500
							 yards in length to 1,000 yards in length
$146.00
For each person using commercial hook and line
$31.00
For each person using commercial hook and line for
							 catching striped bass only
$31.00
For up to 100 fish pots
$19.00
For over 100 but not more than 300 fish pots
$24.00
For over 300 fish pots
$62.00
For up to 100 eel pots
$19.00
For over 100 but not more than 300 eel pots
$24.00
For over 300 eel pots
$62.00
For each person electrofishing catfish
$100.00
10. MENHADEN HARVESTING LICENSES
Any person purchasing more than one of the following
							 licenses, as described in this subsection, for the same vessel shall pay a fee
							 equal to that for a single license for the same vessel.
On each boat or vessel under 70 gross tons fishing
							 for the purse seine menhaden reduction sector
$249.00
On each vessel 70 gross tons or over fishing for the
							 purse seine menhaden reduction sector
$996.00
On each boat or vessel under 70 gross tons fishing
							 for the purse seine menhaden bait sector
$249.00
On each vessel 70 gross tons or over fishing for the
							 purse seine menhaden bait sector
$996.00
11. COMMERCIAL GEAR FOR RECREATIONAL USE
Up to five crab pots with a terrapin excluder
							 device
$36.00
Up to five crab pots without a terrapin excluder
							 device
$46.00
Crab trotline (300 feet maximum)
$10.00
One crab trap or crab pound
$6.00
One gill net up to 300 feet in length
$9.00
Fish dip net
$7.00
Fish cast net
$10.00
Up to two eel pots
$10.00
12. SALTWATER RECREATIONAL FISHING LICENSE
Individual, resident (one year)
$17.50
Individual, resident (two years)
$33.50
Individual, resident (three years)
$49.50
Individual, resident (four years)
$65.50
Individual, nonresident (one year)
$25.00
Temporary 10-Day, resident
$10.00
Temporary 10-Day, nonresident
$10.00
Recreational boat, resident
$48.00
Recreational boat, nonresident, provided a
							 nonresident may not purchase a recreational boat license unless his boat is
							 registered in Virginia
$76.00
Head Boat/Charter Boat, resident, six or less
							 passengers
$190.00
Head Boat/Charter Boat, nonresident, six or less
							 passengers
$380.00
Head Boat/Charter Boat, resident, more than six
							 passengers, plus $5.00 per person, over six persons
$190.00
Head Boat/Charter Boat, nonresident, more than six
							 passengers, plus $5.00 per person, over six persons
$380.00
Rental Boat, resident, per boat, with maximum fee of
							 $703
$14.00
Rental Boat, nonresident, per boat, with maximum fee
							 of $1270
$18.00
Commercial Fishing Pier (Optional)
$632.00
Disabled Resident Lifetime Saltwater License
$10.00
Disabled Nonresident Lifetime Saltwater
							 License
$10.00
Reissuance of Saltwater Recreational Boat
							 License
$5.00
13. COMBINED SPORTFISHING LICENSE
This license is to fish in all inland waters and
							 tidal waters of the Commonwealth during open season.
Residents
$39.50
Nonresidents
$71.00
14. COMBINED SPORTFISHING TRIP LICENSE
This license is to fish in all inland waters and
							 tidal waters of the Commonwealth during open season for five consecutive
							 days.
Residents
$24.00
Nonresidents
$31.00
15. TIDAL BOAT SPORTFISHING LICENSE
Residents
$126.00
Nonresidents
$201.00
16. LIFETIME SALTWATER RECREATIONAL FISHING
							 LICENSES
Individual Resident Lifetime License
$276.00
Individual Nonresident Lifetime License
$500.00
Individual Resident Lifetime License age 45 -
							 50
$132.00
Individual Nonresident Lifetime License age 45 -
							 50
$240.00
Individual Resident Lifetime License age 51 -
							 55
$99.00
Individual Nonresident Lifetime License age 51 -
							 55
$180.00
Individual Resident Lifetime License age 56 -
							 60
$66.00
Individual Nonresident Lifetime License age 56 -
							 60
$120.00
Individual Resident Lifetime License age 61 -
							 64
$35.00
Individual Nonresident Lifetime License age 61 -
							 64
$60.00
Individual Resident Lifetime License age 65 and
							 older
$5.00
Subdivisions 1 through 8 and 10 through 16 of
					 4VAC20-1090-30 are not amended;
					 therefore, the text of those subdivisions is not set out.
Statutory Authority: §
											28.2-201 of the Code of
					 Virginia.