New York S 9681: Extends provisions related to the regulation of the amount of Jonah crabs that may be taken

Bill Text

STATE OF NEW YORK
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9681
IN SENATE
May 20, 2024
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Introduced by Sen. MARTINEZ -- 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
extending provisions related to the regulation of the amount of Jonah
crabs that may be taken
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1-a of section 13-0331 of the environmental
2 conservation law, as added by chapter 243 of the laws of 2022, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 1-a. The department may, until December thirty-first, two thousand
5 [ ] , fix by regulation the limit of Jonah crabstwenty-four twenty-six
6 that may be taken for commercial purposes by commercial crab permit
7 holders and by holders of New York commercial lobster licenses provided
8 that such regulations shall be consistent with the compliance require-
9 ments of applicable fishery management plans adopted by the Atlantic
10 States Marine Fisheries Commission and with applicable provisions of
11 fishery management plans adopted pursuant to the Federal Fishery Conser-
12 vation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. section 1800 et seq.).
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in (underscored) is new; matter in bracketsitalics
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15564-01-4