Bill Text: NY S05691 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to extending the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage whelk and conch until December thirty-first, two thousand twenty.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-06-15 - SUBSTITUTED BY A8278 [S05691 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S05691-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5691 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE April 26, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. CROCI -- (at request of the Department of Environ- mental Conservation) -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed 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 whelk and conch The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 13-0330 of the environmental 2 conservation law, as amended by chapter 188 of the laws of 2015, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 6. The department may, until December thirty-first, two thousand 5 [seventeen] twenty, fix by regulation measures for the management of 6 whelk or conch (Busycon and Busycotypus spp.), including size limits, 7 catch and possession limits, open and closed seasons, closed areas, 8 restrictions on the manner of taking and landing, requirements for 9 permits and eligibility therefor, recordkeeping requirements, require- 10 ments on the amount and type of fishing effort and gear, and require- 11 ments relating to transportation, possession and sale, provided that 12 such regulations are no less restrictive than requirements set forth in 13 this chapter and provided further that such regulations are consistent 14 with the compliance requirements of applicable fishery management plans 15 adopted by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission and with 16 applicable provisions of fishery management plans adopted pursuant to 17 the Federal Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. § 1800 et 18 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. LBD09934-01-7