Bill Text: NY A07443 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage winter flounder from 2023 to 2026.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-08-23 - signed chap.321 [A07443 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07443-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7443

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 19, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  WILLIAMS -- (at request of the Department of
          Environmental Conservation) -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Environmental Conservation

        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          extending  the  authority of the department of environmental conserva-
          tion to manage winter flounder

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 13-0340-c of the environmental conservation law, as
     2  amended by section 1 of item Q of subpart A of part XXX of chapter 58 of
     3  the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
     4  § 13-0340-c. Winter flounder (Pleuorenectes americanus).
     5    The  department  may, until December thirty-first, two thousand [twen-
     6  ty-three] twenty-six, fix by regulation measures for the  management  of
     7  winter flounder (Pleuorenectes americanus), including size limits, catch
     8  and   possession   limits,   open  and  closed  seasons,  closed  areas,
     9  restrictions on the manner  of  taking  and  landing,  requirements  for
    10  permits  and  eligibility therefor, recordkeeping requirements, require-
    11  ments on the amount and type of fishing effort and  gear,  and  require-
    12  ments  relating  to  transportation,  possession and sale, provided that
    13  such regulations are no less restrictive than requirements set forth  in
    14  this  chapter  and provided further that such regulations are consistent
    15  with the compliance requirements of applicable fishery management  plans
    16  adopted  by  the  Atlantic  States  Marine Fisheries Commission and with
    17  applicable provisions of fishery management plans  adopted  pursuant  to
    18  the Federal Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. § 1800 et
    19  seq.).
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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