Bill Text: NY A07394 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage monkfish to 2024.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-06-11 - signed chap.123 [A07394 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A07394-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7394

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 6, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. LUNSFORD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee 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 monkfish

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

     1    Section 1.  Section 13-0340-g of the environmental  conservation  law,
     2  as  amended  by  chapter  445 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4  § 13-0340-g. Monkfish  (Lophius  americanus,  Lophius  reticulatus   and
     5                 Lophius gastrophysus).
     6    The  department  may, until December thirty-first, two thousand [twen-
     7  ty-one] twenty-four, fix by regulation measures for  the  management  of
     8  monkfish (Lophius americanus, Lophius reticulatus and Lophius gastrophy-
     9  sus),  including  size  limits,  catch  and  possession limits, open and
    10  closed seasons, closed areas, restrictions on the manner of  taking  and
    11  landing,  requirements for permits and eligibility therefor, recordkeep-
    12  ing requirements, requirements on the amount and type of fishing  effort
    13  and  gear,  and  requirements relating to transportation, possession and
    14  sale, provided that  such  regulations  are  no  less  restrictive  than
    15  requirements  set  forth  in this chapter and provided further that such
    16  regulations are consistent with the compliance requirements of  applica-
    17  ble fishery management plans adopted by the Atlantic States Marine Fish-
    18  eries  Commission  and  with applicable provisions of fishery management
    19  plans adopted pursuant to the Federal Fishery Conservation  and  Manage-
    20  ment Act (16 U.S.C. § 1800 et seq.).
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11234-01-1
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