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N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law § 11-0517: Taking for propagation and stocking; fish hindering propagation of food fish or shellfish
Where this section sits in the code
- Environmental Conservation Law
- Article 11. Fish and Wildlife
- Title 5. Fish and Wildlife Management Practices Cooperative Program; Prohibitions; Taking of Fish, Wildlife, Shellfish and Crustacea For Scientific or Propagation Purposes; Destructive Wildlife; Rabies Control; Guides; Endangered Species
§ 11-0517. Taking for propagation and stocking; fish hindering
propagation of food fish or shellfish.
1. The department may take, or it may permit any person to take
wildlife for propagation or stocking purposes, or fish or shellfish for
propagation purposes.
2. It may also remove, or permit to be removed, in any manner it may
prescribe, from either public or private waters, fish or shellfish which
hinder the propagation of food fish or shellfish, or which are in
imminent danger of being killed by pollution or otherwise. Such fish or
shellfish shall be disposed of as the department may direct.
3. No person shall take fish within one hundred feet of any leader or
net operated by the department or permitted under subdivisions 1 or 2 of
this section and fish confined therein shall be handled or taken
therefrom only by an employee of the department or by the permittee.
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