Relates to the management of weakfish.

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S4964-2011 Actions

• Jun 6, 2011: SUBSTITUTED BY A6887
• May 23, 2011: ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
• May 18, 2011: 2ND REPORT CAL.
• May 17, 2011: 1ST REPORT CAL.687
• May 2, 2011: REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

S4964-2011 Meetings

Environmental Conservation: May 17, 2011

S4964-2011 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

S4964-2011 Votes

S4964-2011 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S4964

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

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

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
This bill would extend the DEC's authority to fix, by regulation,
management measures for weakfish in State waters until December
31, 2014.

JUSTIFICATION:
The DEC's regulatory authority over weakfish 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 inter-jurisdictional 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 152 of the laws of 2007.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None to the State.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

S4964-2011 Text

                      S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
  ________________________________________________________________________

                                    4964

                         2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                              I N  SENATE

                                 May 2, 2011
                                 ___________

  Introduced by Sens. MARTINS, JOHNSON, GRISANTI -- read twice and ordered
    printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environ-
    mental Conservation

  AN  ACT  to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the
    management of weakfish

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


    Section  1.   Section 13-0340-a of the environmental conservation law,
  as amended by chapter 152 of the laws of 2007, is  amended  to  read  as
  follows:

  S 13-0340-a. Weakfish (Cynoscion regalis).
    The department may, until December thirty-first, two thousand [eleven]
  FOURTEEN,  fix  by  regulation  measures  for the management of weakfish
  (Cynoscion regalis), including size limits, catch and possession limits,
  open and closed seasons, closed areas, restrictions  on  the  manner  of
  taking  and  landing, requirements for permits and eligibility therefor,
  recordkeeping requirements, requirements on the amount and type of fish-
  ing effort  and  gear,  and  requirements  relating  to  transportation,
  possession and sale, provided that such regulations are no less restric-
  tive  than  requirements  set forth in this chapter and provided further
  that such regulations are consistent with the compliance requirements of
  applicable fishery management  plans  adopted  by  the  Atlantic  States
  Marine  Fisheries  Commission  and with applicable provisions of fishery
  management plans adopted pursuant to the  Federal  Fishery  Conservation
  and Management Act (16 U.S.C. S 1800 et seq.).
    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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