If the Lobster Management Board of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission approves a lobster v-notch restoration program having equivalent conservation value to the approved or future requirements of the Commission's Lobster Management Plan for Lobster Management Area 6 on or before November 1, 2006, then one hundred per cent of any appropriations made for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007, for lobster stock recovery and conservation shall be made for the implementation of such program. If said Lobster Management Board does not approve such lobster restoration program on or before November 1, 2006, then sixty per cent of any such appropriations shall be used to implement the provisions of subsection (b) of section 26-157c and forty per cent of any such appropriation shall be used to implement the provisions of section 26-157i.
(P.A. 06-187, S. 47.)
History: P.A. 06-187 effective May 26, 2006.