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.
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