Assembly Bill A10393

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  10393

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 25, 2016
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Introduced by M. of A. LIFTON -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Environmental Conservation

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
  prohibiting the sale of certain fish taken pursuant to recreational or
  sportfishing licenses

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

  Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of  section  11-1319 of the environmental
conservation law, as amended by chapter 193 of  the  laws  of  1992,  is
amended to read as follows:
  2. Sale.
  a.  Trout,  including  rainbow  trout,  Atlantic  salmon,  black bass,
walleye and muskellunge shall not be bought and sold.
  b. Bait fish named in section 11-1315  shall  not  be  sold  for  bait
except as provided in that section.
  c.  The  following  fish  may  be bought and sold at any time: (1) the
marine species named in section 13-0339 or in regulations of the depart-
ment provided they are of the minimum size limits stated in such section
or in such regulations; (2) fish that may be  taken  with  nets  in  the
Hudson River, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario as authorized by regulations of
the  department  provided  they are of the minimum size limits stated in
such regulations; (3) fish not specifically named  [in  paragraph  d  of
this  subdivision or] in section 13-0339, 11-1521 or 13-0347 or in regu-
lation adopted pursuant to section 11-1303; AND (4) [fish for which such
regulations specify no minimum size limits and specify generally without
exceptions, that the open season is "any time"] BULLHEAD IN THE COUNTIES
OF ONEIDA, OSWEGO AND MADISON.
  D. FISH AND ANY PARTS THEREOF TAKEN  PURSUANT  TO  THE  PRIVILEGES  OF
TITLE  SEVEN OF THIS ARTICLE MAY NOT BE BOUGHT AND SOLD, EXCEPT FOR FISH
OR PARTS THEREOF TAKEN FROM THE SAINT LAWRENCE RIVER ADJACENT TO JEFFER-
SON COUNTY.
  S 2. The opening paragraph of subdivision 4 of section 11-1703 of  the
environmental conservation law is amended to read as follows:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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  Fish  [of  the  following species taken outside the state shall not be
bought or sold or otherwise trafficked in if they] AND ANY PARTS THEREOF
TAKEN OUTSIDE THE STATE, EXCEPT FOR FISH OR PARTS THEREOF TAKEN FROM THE
SAINT LAWRENCE RIVER ADJACENT TO JEFFERSON COUNTY, SHALL NOT  BE  BOUGHT
OR  SOLD  OR  OTHERWISE TRAFFICKED IN IF THEY WERE TAKEN PURSUANT TO THE
PRIVILEGES OF A RECREATIONAL OR SPORTFISHING LICENSE OR IF THEY  ARE  OF
THE  FOLLOWING SPECIES AND are of less than the size limits specified in
this subdivision or in the sections to which it refers:
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.