Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to restrict the taking of fish, shellfish and crustacea in special management areas.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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IN ASSEMBLY
May 15, 2026
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Otis) -- (at
request of the Department of Environmental Conservation) -- 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 restrict the taking of fish, shellfish and crustacea in
special management areas
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 13-0360 of the environmental
2 conservation law, as amended by chapter 315 of the laws of 2023, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 3. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the department
5 may, until December thirty-first, two thousand [twenty-six] twenty-nine,
6 adopt regulations restricting the taking of fish, shellfish and crusta-
7 cea in any special management area designated pursuant to subdivision
8 two of this section. Such regulations may restrict the manner of taking
9 of fish, shellfish and crustacea in such areas and the landing of fish,
10 shellfish and crustacea which have been taken therefrom. Such regu-
11 lations shall be consistent with all relevant federal and interstate
12 fisheries management plans and with the marine fisheries conservation
13 and management policy set forth in section 13-0105 of this article.
14 § 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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