Bill Title: Prohibits the department of environmental conservation, as part of any statewide plan for fisheries management, from establishing areas closed to fishing without a prior determination that fishing is the cause of the conservation problem; requires regulations related to any such closure to provide for periodic review based on measurable conservation criteria, limit the size of the closed area, and provide for reopening such closed area whenever it is determined that the reason for the closure no longer exists.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S04414 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Contact	Phone	District	Sponsorship	State Profile	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Senator Owen Johnson [R]	Sponsor	Inactive	Inactive	SD-004	Sponsored Bills	Inactive	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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