Assembly Bill A4619

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Provides for the regulation of aquaculture for the purpose of developing fish-farming businesses as an alternative cash crop for farms across the state; repealer

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-A4619 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2195
Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Rpld §11-1909, amd §§11-1319 & 11-1501, En Con L; add Art 6 §§100 - 103, Ag & Mkts L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S2438
2011-2012: A7461, S768
2015-2016: A4320, S3069
2017-2018: A3377, S831
2019-2020: S1036

2013-A4619 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for the regulation of aquaculture for the purpose of developing fish-farming businesses as an alternative cash crop for farms across the state and appoints a task force relating thereto.

2013-A4619 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  4619

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 6, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Environmental Conservation

AN  ACT  to amend the environmental conservation law and the agriculture
  and markets law, in relation to the regulation of aquaculture; and  to
  repeal  section 11-1909 of the environmental conservation law relating
  to private trout and black bass hatcheries

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

  Section  1.  Section  11-1909 of the environmental conservation law is
REPEALED.
  S 2. Paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 11-1319 of  the  environ-
mental  conservation law, as amended by chapter 193 of the laws of 1992,
is amended to read as follows:
  a. This section governs possession, transportation  and  sale  of  all
fish  taken  in  waters  of  the state, including the marine and coastal
district except (1) trout and black bass raised under  permit  from  the
department  and  identified as provided in section [11-1909] ONE HUNDRED
ONE OF THE AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS LAW, (2) fish taken from a farm  fish
pond  licensed  as  provided in section 11-1911, and (3) fish taken from
licensed fishing preserve waters as provided in section 11-1913.
  S 3. Subdivision 1 of section 11-1501 of the  environmental  conserva-
tion  law,  as amended by chapter 193 of the laws of 1992, is amended to
read as follows:
  1. This title 15 of the Fish and Wildlife Law and regulations  adopted
pursuant  hereto  do  not  apply to (a) the taking of fish by angling as
permitted in title 13; (b) the taking of fish or the use of nets in  the
marine and coastal district as defined in section 13-0103, or in a trout
or  black  bass  hatchery  operated  under permit from the department as
provided in section [11-1909] ONE HUNDRED ONE  OF  THE  AGRICULTURE  AND
MARKETS  LAW,  or  in  a  farm fish pond licensed as provided in section
11-1911 or in  a  fishing  preserve  licensed  as  provided  in  section

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06498-01-3
              

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