Bill Text: NY S06984 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to extending the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage blackfish.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2014-07-22 - SIGNED CHAP.162 [S06984 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-S06984-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 6984--A I N S E N A T E April 11, 2014 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MARTINS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee 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 88 of the laws of 2011, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 1. The department may, until December thirty-first, two thousand 5 [fourteen] SIXTEEN, 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. S 1800 et seq.). 18 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD13959-03-4