New Jersey Statutes 23:2B-8. Management of shared fisheries resources; cooperation to develop integrated management plans; reciprocal agreements with other jurisdictions
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 23:2B-8
- Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
- Fishing: means the possession of an instrument used to take fish in a condition that makes the instrument readily usable, while in a place or in proximity thereto where fish may be found. See New Jersey Statutes 23:1-1
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
- State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
The commissioner is empowered to make the following reciprocal agreements with other jurisdictions:
a. Rules and regulations with respect to fishing in boundary waters after consultation with the appropriate body in the neighboring states;
b. A procedure whereby valid fishing license issued by the parties to the reciprocal agreements may be used by their licensees within the jurisdiction of either in accordance with the terms of such agreements;
c. Any individual from a state who has the responsibility of enforcing that state’s marine fisheries laws may pursue any person found fishing in the coastal waters of such state in violation of the marine fisheries laws thereof onto adjacent waters of this State and there arrest him and return him to the state where the violation occurred for the purpose of prosecuting him for such violation; provided, that such other state shall have enacted legislation giving substantially similar authority to individuals in this State who have responsibility for enforcing the marine fisheries laws of this State relative to persons found fishing in the coastal waters of this State in violation of the marine fishing laws thereof.
L.1979, c. 199, s. 8, eff. Sept. 19, 1979.