S5087-2011 - NY Senate Open Legislation - Relates to the regulation of the landing of lobsters

Relates to the regulation of the landing of lobsters.

Sponsor: JOHNSON / Co-sponsor(s): GRISANTI
Law Section: Environmental Conservation Law / Law: Amd S13-0329, En Con L

S5087-2011 Actions

Jun 6, 2011: SUBSTITUTED BY A7631
May 23, 2011: ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
May 18, 2011: 2ND REPORT CAL.
May 17, 2011: 1ST REPORT CAL.709
May 3, 2011: REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

S5087-2011 Meetings

Environmental Conservation: May 17, 2011

S5087-2011 Calendars

Active List: Jun 6, 2011 , Floor Calendar: May 18, 2011 , Floor Calendar: May 23, 2011 , Floor Calendar: May 24, 2011 , Floor Calendar: May 25, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Jun 1, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Jun 2, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Jun 6, 2011

S5087-2011 Votes

VOTE: COMMITTEE VOTE: - Environmental Conservation - May 17, 2011

Ayes (13): Grisanti, Johnson, Little, Marcellino, Maziarz, O'Mara, Young, Avella, Espaillat, Oppenheimer, Perkins, Serrano, Stewart-Cousins
Ayes W/R (1): LaValle

S5087-2011 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S5087

TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the
landing of lobsters

PURPOSE:
To extend the Department of Environmental Conservation's (DEC) authority
to manage lobsters.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
This bill would extend the DEC's authority to fix, by regulation,
management measures for lobsters in State waters until December 31,
2015.

JUSTIFICATION:
The DEC's regulatory authority over lobsters is necessary in order to
preserve the current regulatory program. Failure to extend the existing
regulatory authority by December 31, 2011 will result in the loss of
regulatory protection of these species. Moreover, regulatory authority
is critical for New York State to maintain compliance with Fishery
Management Plans for important marine and anadromous fish species along
the coast. Failure to make necessary regulatory changes required by
Fishery Management Plans places New York in jeopardy of closure of
commercial and recreational fisheries. Finally, ECL � 13-0105, which
sets forth the State's marine fisheries conservation and management
policy, provides that this policy shall be carried out through
achievement of certain objectives. One of these objectives is that the
state's transboundary and migratory species shall be consistent with any
interjurisdictional management plans, interstate or state-federal.
Regulatory authority provides the mechanism to react timely to the ever
changing fishery management plans.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
Last extended by Chapter 366 of the Laws of 2007.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: None to the State.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

S5087-2011 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
                                          5087
 2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 I N  SENATE
 May 3, 2011
 
 Introduced by Sens. JOHNSON, GRISANTI -- 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  the
 landing of lobsters
 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

Section 1. Subdivision 16 of  section  13-0329  of  the  environmental
 conservation  law,  as  amended  by  chapter 366 of the laws of 2007, is
 amended to read as follows:

 16. The department may,  until  December  thirty-first,  two  thousand
 [eleven] FIFTEEN, adopt regulations for Atlantic States Marine Fisheries
 Commission  Areas  One,  Two,  Three, Four, Five, and Outer Cape Cod, to
 implement conservation measures that affect landings of lobsters, pursu
 ant to the recommendations of the respective Area's Lobster Conservation
 Management Team as required by the Interstate Fishery Plan for  Lobsters
 adopted by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission.
 

S 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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S5087-2011: Relates to the regulation of the landing of lobsters