Bill Text: NJ A1435 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Allows sale of wild striped bass caught outside of NJ.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-16 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee [A1435 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2014-A1435-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
216th LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2014 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman MARLENE CARIDE
District 36 (Bergen and Passaic)
SYNOPSIS
Allows sale of wild striped bass caught outside of NJ.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel
An Act concerning the sale of certain striped bass and amending P.L.1991, c.43.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 2 of P.L.1991, c.43 (C.23:5-45.3) is amended to read as follows:
2. No person shall sell, barter, possess for sale or barter, or offer for sale or barter any striped bass [, whether] caught within the jurisdictional limits of this State [or otherwise, provided that this section shall not prohibit the shipment or transportation of striped bass from another state or country into the State which is destined for shipment or transportation out of the State or prohibit the sale of commercially raised hybrid striped bass]. However, a person may ship, transport, sell, barter, possess for sale or barter, or offer for sale or barter in the State:
a. any commercially raised hybrid striped bass; or
b. any striped bass caught outside of the jurisdictional limits of the State, provided that the person possesses sufficient documentation, as determined by the Commissioner of Environmental Protection, to prove that the striped bass was legally caught within the jurisdictional limits of another state or country that allows fishing for striped bass.
(cf: P.L.1991, c.43, s.2)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill would allow wild striped bass caught outside of the State to be sold in New Jersey.
Current law, section 2 of P.L.1991, c.43 (C.23:5-45.3), provides that no person shall sell, barter, possess for sale or barter, or offer for sale or barter any striped bass, whether caught within the jurisdictional limits of this State or otherwise. This bill removes this prohibition for striped bass legally caught outside the jurisdictional limits of New Jersey.
The bill would require the person shipping, transporting, selling, bartering, possessing for sale or barter, or offering for sale or barter the striped bass to possess sufficient documentation, as determined by the Commissioner of Environmental Protection, to prove that the striped bass was legally caught within the jurisdictional limits of another state or country that allows fishing for striped bass.
