Bill Text: NY A10200 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-06-30 - signed chap.306 [A10200 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A10200-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10200

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 6, 2022
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Gibbs) --
          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 weakfish

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

     1    Section 1. Section 13-0340-a of the environmental conservation law, as
     2  amended  by  chapter  238  of  the  laws  of 2019, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4  § 13-0340-a. Weakfish (Cynoscion regalis).
     5    The department may, until December thirty-first, two  thousand  [twen-
     6  ty-two]  twenty-five,  fix  by regulation measures for the management of
     7  weakfish  (Cynoscion  regalis),  including  size   limits,   catch   and
     8  possession  limits,  open and closed seasons, closed areas, restrictions
     9  on the manner of taking and landing, requirements for permits and eligi-
    10  bility therefor, recordkeeping requirements, requirements on the  amount
    11  and type of fishing effort and gear, and requirements relating to trans-
    12  portation,  possession  and  sale, provided that such regulations are no
    13  less restrictive  than  requirements  set  forth  in  this  chapter  and
    14  provided  further  that such regulations are consistent with the compli-
    15  ance 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.
                                                                   LBD15568-01-2