Bill Text: NY A07439 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-08-23 - signed chap.317 [A07439 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07439-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7439

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 19, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. BURDICK -- (at request of the Department of Envi-
          ronmental  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 scup

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

     1    Section 1. Section 13-0340-e of the environmental conservation law, as
     2  amended by section 1 of item M of subpart A of part XXX of chapter 58 of
     3  the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
     4  § 13-0340-e. Scup (Stenotomus chrysops).
     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  scup  (Stenotomus chrysops), including size limits, catch and possession
     8  limits, open and closed  seasons,  closed  areas,  restrictions  on  the
     9  manner  of  taking and landing, requirements for permits and eligibility
    10  therefor, recordkeeping requirements, requirements  on  the  amount  and
    11  type  of fishing effort and gear, and requirements relating to transpor-
    12  tation, possession and sale, provided that such regulations are no  less
    13  restrictive  than  requirements  set  forth in this chapter and provided
    14  further  that  such  regulations  are  consistent  with  the  compliance
    15  requirements  of  applicable  fishery  management  plans  adopted by the
    16  Atlantic  States  Marine  Fisheries  Commission  and   with   applicable
    17  provisions  of  fishery management plans adopted pursuant to the Federal
    18  Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. § 1800 et seq.).
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05873-01-3