Environment Committee
AN ACT NAMING THE STATE'S SHELLFISH RESEARCH VESSEL THE “JOHN H. VOLK”
SUMMARY: This act renames the vessel the Department of Agriculture (1) uses to research and survey shellfish in the Long Island Sound and (2) docks at the Bureau of Aquaculture office in Milford. For at least 20 years, the existing vessel (previously called the “Yankee Oyster”) and any subsequent vessel that meets the same description must be name the “John H. Volk. ” (Volk was Bureau of Aquaculture Director for 21 years. ) If the current vessel is removed from state service, the next most prominent vessel by size and use must also be named the “John H. Volk” until the state acquires a larger and more prominent research and surveying vessel.
EFFECTIVE DATE: Upon passage
OLR Tracking: JRH: sne: jsl: ts/tjo