Assembly Bill A5181

                             
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                                   5181
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 12, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Agriculture
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  agriculture  and markets law, the environmental
   conservation law, and the state finance law, in relation to management
   and development of the commercial shellfish aquaculture industry

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  2-a  of  section  16  of the agriculture and
 markets law, as added by chapter 124 of the laws of 1983, is amended  to
 read as follows:
   2-a.  [Aid]  ESTABLISH  A  DIRECTOR  OF  AQUACULTURAL AND MARICULTURAL
 RESOURCES POSITION TO AID, IN COOPERATION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF ECONOM-
 IC DEVELOPMENT, in the promotion and marketing of finfish and  shellfish
 derived from commercial fishing or aquacultural activities and cooperate
 with  fishing and aquaculture associations or corporations organized for
 any or all such purposes.
   § 2. Subparagraph 7 of paragraph  (b)  of  subdivision  1  of  section
 13-0105  of  the environmental conservation law, as added by chapter 365
 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
   (7) the state shall investigate and encourage the development of aqua-
 culture of economically important species, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED  TO
 SHELLFISH,  both  to  relieve pressure on and enhance wild stocks and to
 provide economic  opportunity  AND  SUPPORT  THE  GROWTH  OF  INDUSTRIES
 INVOLVED  WITH  AQUACULTURE,  MARICULTURE,  OR THE COMMERCIAL AND RECRE-
 ATIONAL HARVESTING OF MARINE RESOURCES;
   § 3. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 4 of section 13-0350 of the environ-
 mental conservation law, as amended by chapter 365 of the laws of  1994,
 is amended to read as follows:
   (d) To assist the department's efforts to expand the available sources
 of  income  for  the  marine resources account and advise the department
 with respect to the needs of those industries involved with the  commer-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 cial  and recreational harvesting of marine resources, INCLUDING BUT NOT
 LIMITED TO THE COMMERCIAL SHELLFISH AQUACULTURE INDUSTRY.
   § 4. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph 2 and subparagraph (i) of paragraph
 3  of subdivision (a) of section 83 of the state finance law, as amended
 by chapter 512 of the laws of 1994, are amended to read as follows:
   (i) Moneys  collected  pursuant  to  [sections  13-0301,  13-0311  and
 13-0315]  ARTICLE THIRTEEN of the environmental conservation law and all
 fines and penalties collected pursuant to article  seventy-one  of  such
 law  for  illegal  acts  relating  to  shellfish shall be deposited in a
 special account within the conservation fund, to be known as the  marine
 resources  account, and shall be available to the department of environ-
 mental conservation, after appropriation, for:
   (A) the care, management, protection and enlargement  of  marine  fish
 and shellfish resources; AND
   (B)  THE  DEVELOPMENT  OF  INDUSTRIES INVOLVED WITH THE COMMERCIAL AND
 RECREATIONAL HARVESTING OF MARINE RESOURCES, INCLUDING BUT  NOT  LIMITED
 TO THE COMMERCIAL SHELLFISH AQUACULTURE INDUSTRY.
   (i)  Moneys  arising out of the application of article thirteen of the
 environmental conservation law shall be deposited in a  special  account
 within  the  conservation  fund,  to  be  known  as the marine resources
 account, and shall be  available  to  the  department  of  environmental
 conservation, after appropriation, for:
   (A)  the  care,  management, protection and enlargement of marine fish
 and shellfish resources; AND
   (B) THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRIES INVOLVED  WITH  THE  COMMERCIAL  AND
 RECREATIONAL  HARVESTING  OF MARINE RESOURCES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED
 TO THE COMMERCIAL SHELLFISH AQUACULTURE INDUSTRY.
   § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.