Bill Text: NY A08045 | 2019-2020 | 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 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-08-30 - SIGNED CHAP.236 [A08045 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08045-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8045

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 31, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GRIFFIN,  ENGLEBRIGHT  -- (at request of the
          Department of Environmental 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 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 140 of  the  laws  of  2016,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    1.  The  department  may,  until  December  thirty-first, two thousand
     5  [nineteen] twenty-two, fix by regulation measures for the management  of
     6  blackfish  (Tautoga onitis), including size limits, catch and possession
     7  limits, open and closed  seasons,  closed  areas,  restrictions  on  the
     8  manner  of  taking and landing, requirements for permits and eligibility
     9  therefor, recordkeeping requirements, requirements  on  the  amount  and
    10  type  of fishing effort and gear, and requirements relating to transpor-
    11  tation, possession and sale, provided that such regulations are no  less
    12  restrictive  than  requirements  set  forth in this chapter and provided
    13  further  that  such  regulations  are  consistent  with  the  compliance
    14  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.
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