Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage whelk and conch, the official text

S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                              April 27, 2026
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 Introduced by Sen. BOTTCHER -- (at request of the Department of Environ-
   mental  Conservation)  --  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  the  authority of the department of environmental conserva-
   tion to manage whelk and conch

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  6  of  section  13-0330 of the environmental
 conservation law, as amended by of chapter 320 of the laws of  2023,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   6.  The  department  may,  until  December  thirty-first, two thousand
 [twenty-six] TWENTY-NINE, fix by regulation measures for the  management
 of whelk or conch (Busycon and Busycotypus spp.), 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, require-
 ments on the amount and type of fishing effort and  gear,  and  require-
 ments  relating  to  transportation,  possession and sale, provided that
 such regulations are no less restrictive 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. § 1800 et
 seq.).
   § 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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