Substitute Senate Bill No. 226
Public Act No. 19-28
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
Energy and Environmental Protection shall enter into an agreement
with the state of Rhode Island, the state of New York or both, to
provide for a dual-landing agreement that authorizes commercial
fishermen who are licensed in this state and Rhode Island or New
York, as applicable, to take fish from state and federal waters in an
amount that exceeds such commercial fisherman's daily limit in an
agreement state but not more than the total daily limit for such
commercial fisherman among the states that are a party to such
agreement. Such agreement shall be limited to the Winter I Summer
Flounder season. Pursuant to such agreement, such commercial
fisherman shall separate such take by the daily limits allowed in each
such state and complete any such landing in each state by the hour
specified in such agreement. Any such agreement shall allow for such
agreement to be extended to commercial fishermen licensed in this
state and any other state with which Connecticut shares either a water
or land boundary. The Department of Energy and Environmental
Protection may board the vessel of any commercial fisherman who
makes a take pursuant to such an agreement in order to inspect for Substitute Senate Bill No. 226
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compliance with the terms of any such agreement.