Assembly Actions -
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Jan 03, 2018 |
referred to environmental conservation |
Jan 20, 2017 |
referred to environmental conservation |
Assembly Bill A2514
2017-2018 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
THIELE
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
Dean Murray
Anthony H. Palumbo
2017-A2514 (ACTIVE) - Details
2017-A2514 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ S. 3197 A. 2514 2017-2018 Regular Sessions S E N A T E - A S S E M B L Y January 20, 2017 ___________ IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered print- ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. THIELE, MURRAY, PALUMBO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation AN ACT in relation to directing the state attorney general to bring any and all legal actions against the National Marine Fisheries Services or any other federal or interstate agency challenging existing inequi- table fishing quotas that discriminate against New York state commer- cial fishermen THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Legislative findings. The Magnuson-Stevens Act (MSA) was enacted by the United States Congress in 1976 to restrict foreign fish- ing vessels in the United States offshore waters from 3 miles to 200 miles off the shoreline. The MSA also sought to regulate fishing in federal waters by establishing various management tools such as a state by state quota allocation system for commercial fishermen. These state by state quotas created by the Mid-Atlantic Fisheries Management Council and the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Marine Fisheries Service, pursuant to the MSA, are based upon faulty and incomplete collection data, which discriminate against commercial fishermen in the state of New York. As a result of these discriminatory practices, New York's quota for black sea bass, bluefish, scup, and summer flounder are much lower than would be allocated under a fair non-discriminatory system. For example, New York's summer flounder quota was less than half of that allocated to Rhode Island, New Jersey, Virginia, and North Carolina. This discriminatory quota system has resulted in unwarranted economic and job losses. It is the purpose of this act to direct the state attor- EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04089-01-7
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