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-7ty-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