A 14-foot reticulated python was found dead on the side of a Long Island, New York road a couple weeks ago, prompting an investigation into how it got there.
New York is a big state. Therefore fisheries near Buffalo likely face different challenges than those in Westchester. The Empire State prides itself in regulations but sometimes has to simplify those rules in order to accommodate such a large area of different terrain. The NYS Department of Environmental Conservation made some of those adaptations on Tuesday.