Bill Text: NY A10161 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage blackfish.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-06-30 - signed chap.297 [A10161 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A10161-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10161

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 4, 2022
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        Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Williams) --
          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 blackfish

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section  13-0340-d  of  the  environmental
     2  conservation  law,  as  amended  by  chapter 236 of the laws of 2019, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    1. The department  may,  until  December  thirty-first,  two  thousand
     5  [twenty-two]  twenty-five, fix by regulation measures for the management
     6  of  blackfish  (Tautoga  onitis),  including  size  limits,  catch   and
     7  possession  limits,  open and closed seasons, closed areas, restrictions
     8  on the manner of taking and landing, requirements for permits and eligi-
     9  bility therefor, recordkeeping requirements, requirements on the  amount
    10  and type of fishing effort and gear, and requirements relating to trans-
    11  portation,  possession  and  sale, provided that such regulations are no
    12  less restrictive  than  requirements  set  forth  in  this  chapter  and
    13  provided  further  that such regulations are consistent with the compli-
    14  ance requirements of applicable fishery management plans adopted by  the
    15  Atlantic   States   Marine  Fisheries  Commission  and  with  applicable
    16  provisions of fishery management plans adopted pursuant to  the  Federal
    17  Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. § 1800 et seq.).
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15572-01-2