§187A-11 Disposition of revenues. All moneys collected each month as fees for commercial marine activities, including commercial marine licenses, marine product licenses, and all other moneys collected under the provisions of any law relating to the importation, taking, catching, or killing of aquatic life, and products thereof, except sport fish, shall be deposited with the director of finance to the credit of the general fund. The moneys collected shall be available for expenditure only for the department in accordance with appropriations authorized by the legislature and shall be expended by the department for the importation, management, preservation, propagation, and protection of aquatic life into or in the State, and for the payment of expenses incurred in the prosecution of offenders against the aquatic resource laws of the State, and for the conservation of commercial fisheries and all phases of the work pertaining thereto and all expenses connected therewith, which the department deems expedient. [L 1985, c 94, pt of §1; am L 1993, c 143, §4]