North Carolina General Statutes Chapter 113. Conservation and Development § 113-293. Obstructing rivers or creeks; keeping open fishways in dams

(1) To set a net of any description across the main channel of any river or creek;

(2) To erect so as to extend more than three fourths of the distance across any river or creek any stand, dam, weir, hedge, or other obstruction to the passage of fish;

(3) To erect any stand, dam, weir, or hedge in any part of a river or creek required to be left open for the passage of fish; or,

(4) Having erected any dam where the same was allowed, to fail to make and keep open such slope or fishway as may be required by law to be kept open for the free passage of fish.