New York Consolidated Laws, Environmental Conservation Law - ENV § 11-0709. Circumstances in which license under section 11-0701 not required

1. When a license or permit issued by the department, other than a license defined in section 11-0701, permits taking of fish or wildlife, such taking is exempted from the requirement of a license, defined in section 11-0701, which would otherwise be required, unless the license or permit or the statute authorizing its issuance states that such license is required.

2. Whenever taking of destructive or menacing wildlife is authorized in section 11-0523 of this article, such taking is exempt from the requirement of a license which authorizes the holder to hunt wildlife or trap, unless the provision authorizing such taking specifies that such license is required.

3. The holder of a farm fish pond license, members of his immediate family and persons actually employed by him in the cultivation of his farm or in the management of the licensed pond may, without fishing license, take fish in accordance with section 11-1911 and regulations governing the taking of fish from such fish ponds.

4. The holder of a fishing preserve license, members of his immediate family, and any person to whom the licensee has granted permission to take fish from such licensed fishing preserve waters may, without fishing or netting license, take fish in accordance with section 11-1913 and regulations governing the taking of fish from such fishing preserve waters.