STATE OF NEW YORK
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7858
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 28, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT -- (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 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 87 of the laws of 2011, is
3 amended as follows:
4 3. The department may, until December thirty-first, two thousand
5 [fifteen] eighteen, fix by regulation measures for the management of
6 striped bass, including size limits, catch and possession limits, open
7 and closed seasons, closed areas, restrictions on the manner of taking
8 and landing, requirements for permits and eligibility therefor, record-
9 keeping requirements, requirements on the amount and type of fishing
10 effort and gear, and requirements relating to transportation, possession
11 and sale, provided that such regulations are no less restrictive than
12 requirements set forth in this chapter and provided further that such
13 regulations are consistent with the compliance requirements of applica-
14 ble fishery management plans adopted by the Atlantic States Marine Fish-
15 eries Commission and with applicable provisions of fishery management
16 plans adopted pursuant to the Federal Fishery Conservation and Manage-
17 ment 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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