Bill Text: NY S07070 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to extending the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage striped bass.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-06-02 - SUBSTITUTED BY A7393 [S07070 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S07070-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7070

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 26, 2021
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        Introduced  by Sen. KAMINSKY -- 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 striped bass

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of  section  11-0303 of the environmental
     2  conservation law, as amended by chapter 446 of  the  laws  of  2018,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    3.  The  department  may,  until  December  thirty-first, two thousand
     5  [twenty-one] twenty-four, fix by regulation measures for the  management
     6  of  striped  bass,  including  size limits, catch and possession limits,
     7  open and closed seasons, closed areas, restrictions  on  the  manner  of
     8  taking  and  landing, requirements for permits and eligibility therefor,
     9  recordkeeping requirements, requirements on the amount and type of fish-
    10  ing effort  and  gear,  and  requirements  relating  to  transportation,
    11  possession and sale, provided that such regulations are no less restric-
    12  tive  than  requirements  set forth in this chapter and provided further
    13  that such regulations are consistent with the compliance requirements of
    14  applicable fishery management  plans  adopted  by  the  Atlantic  States
    15  Marine  Fisheries  Commission  and with applicable provisions of fishery
    16  management plans adopted pursuant to the  Federal  Fishery  Conservation
    17  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.
                                                                   LBD11232-01-1