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General Assembly Committee Bill No. 226
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 3787
Referred to Committee on ENVIRONMENT
Introduced by:
(ENV)
AN ACT AUTHORIZING D UAL LANDINGS OF FISH IN THE STATE.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
(NEW) (Effective October 1, 2019) The Commissioner of Energy and 1
Environmental Protection shall enter into an agreement with the state 2
of Rhode Island, the state of New York or both, to provide for a dual- 3
landing agreement that authorizes commercial fishermen who are 4
licensed in this state and Rhode Island or New York, as applicable, to 5
take fish from Connecticut waters in an amount that exceeds such 6
commercial fisherman's daily limit in this state but not more than the 7
total daily limit for such commercial fisherman among the states that 8
are a party to such agreement. Pursuant to such agreement, such 9
commercial fisherman shall separate such take by the daily limits 10
allowed in each such state and shall first offload the applicable limit in 11
Connecticut before notifying any other state that is party to such 12
agreement of such commercial fisherman's intent to offload some 13
portion of such commercial fisherman's daily limit for such state in 14
such state. Under the terms of such agreement, any commercial 15
fisherman who intends to undertake any such dual landing shall 16
provide notification to the Department of Energy and Environmental 17
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Protection not later than forty-eight hours prior to undertaking such 18
take. Any such agreement shall allow for such agreement to be 19
extended to commercial fishermen licensed in this state and any other 20
state with which Connecticut shares either a water or land boundary. 21
The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection may board 22
the vessel of any commercial fisherman who makes a take pursuant to 23
such an agreement in order to inspect for compliance with the terms of 24
any such agreement. 25
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
(NEW) October 1, 2019 New section
Statement of Purpose:
To authorize dual landings of fish in the state.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline,
except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is
not underlined.]
Co-Sponsors: SEN. SOMERS, 18th Dist.
S.B. 226