A11377: Extends provisions related to the regulation of the amount of Jonah crabs that may be taken for an…

STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 11377 IN ASSEMBLY May 14, 2026 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Griffin) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to extending provisions related to the regulation of the amount of Jonah crabs that may be taken The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1-a of section 13-0331 of the environmental 2 conservation law, as added by chapter 260 of the laws of 2024, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 1-a. The department may, until December thirty-first, two thousand 5 [ twenty-six ] twenty-eight , fix by regulation the limit of Jonah crabs 6 that may be taken for commercial purposes by commercial crab permit 7 holders and by holders of New York commercial lobster licenses provided 8 that such regulations shall be consistent with the compliance require- 9 ments of applicable fishery management plans adopted by the Atlantic 10 States Marine Fisheries Commission and with applicable provisions of 11 fishery management plans adopted pursuant to the Federal Fishery Conser- 12 vation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. section 1800 et seq.). 13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD15893-01-6