Relates to the management of hickory shad.

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S4981-2011 Actions

• Jun 6, 2011: SUBSTITUTED BY A6955
• May 23, 2011: ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
• May 18, 2011: 2ND REPORT CAL.
• May 17, 2011: 1ST REPORT CAL.704
• May 2, 2011: REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

S4981-2011 Meetings

Environmental Conservation: May 17, 2011

S4981-2011 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

S4981-2011 Votes

S4981-2011 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S4981

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

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

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

JUSTIFICATION:
DEC's regulatory authority over hickory shad 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 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 146 of the Laws of 2007.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None to the State.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the same date as the enactment as a
Chapter of the Laws of 2011 entitled, "AN ACT to amend the
environmental conservation law, in relation to the management of
Atlantic cod."

S4981-2011 Text

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

                                    4981

                         2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                              I N  SENATE

                                 May 2, 2011
                                 ___________

  Introduced  by  Sens.  MARCELLINO,  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
    management of hickory shad

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


    Section  1.  Paragraph  i of subdivision 1 of section 13-0339-a of the
  environmental conservation law, as amended by a chapter of the  laws  of
  2011  entitled,  "AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in
  relation to the management of Atlantic  cod",  is  amended  to  read  as
  follows:

    i.    hickory  shad (Alosa mediocris) until December thirty-first, two
  thousand [eleven] FOURTEEN.
    S 2. This act shall take effect on the same date as a chapter  of  the
  laws  of  2011 entitled, "AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation
  law, in relation to the management of Atlantic cod", takes effect.





   EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                        [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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