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General Assembly Substitute Bill No. 226
January Session, 2019
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:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2019) The Commissioner of 1
Energy and Environmental Protection shall enter into an agreement 2
with the state of Rhode Island, the state of New York or both, to 3
provide for a dual-landing agreement that authorizes commercial 4
fishermen who are licensed in this state and Rhode Island or New 5
York, as applicable, to take fish from state and federal waters in an 6
amount that exceeds such commercial fisherman's daily limit in an 7
agreement state but not more than the total daily limit for such 8
commercial fisherman among the states that are a party to such 9
agreement. Such agreement shall be limited to the Winter I Summer 10
Flounder season. Pursuant to such agreement, such commercial 11
fisherman shall separate such take by the daily limits allowed in each 12
such state and complete any such landing in each state by the hour 13
specified in such agreement. Any such agreement shall allow for such 14
agreement to be extended to commercial fishermen licensed in this 15
state and any other state with which Connecticut shares either a water 16
or land boundary. The Department of Energy and Environmental 17
Protection may board the vessel of any commercial fisherman who 18
makes a take pursuant to such an agreement in order to inspect for 19
compliance with the terms of any such agreement. 20 Substitute Bill No. 226
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This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2019 New section
ENV Joint Favorable Subst.