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NY S03197
Bill
Status
1/20/2017
Primary Sponsor
Kenneth LaValle
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AI Summary
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Directs the State Attorney General to commence legal actions against the National Marine Fisheries Service and other federal or interstate agencies to challenge and overturn fishing quotas deemed arbitrary, capricious, and discriminatory against New York commercial fishermen.
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Establishes legislative findings that state-by-state fishing quotas created by the Mid-Atlantic Fisheries Management Council under the Magnuson-Stevens Act are based on faulty and incomplete data that unfairly disadvantage New York fishermen.
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Identifies black sea bass, bluefish, scup, and summer flounder as species with inequitable quotas, noting New York's summer flounder allocation is less than half that of Rhode Island, New Jersey, Virginia, and North Carolina.
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Takes effect immediately upon enactment.
Legislative Description
Directs the attorney general to bring legal actions against the National Marine Fisheries Services or any other federal or state agency challenging existing inequitable fishing quotas that discriminate against New York state commercial fishermen.
Last Action
COMMITTED TO RULES
6/20/2018