§1828 — Title 16 Conservation | U.S. Code

Summary

Within 180 days after July 11, 2006, the Secretary who runs the Department housing the Coast Guard must send a report to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. The report must explain steps the Coast Guard will take to better detect and stop foreign fishing vessels from illegally entering the United States exclusive economic zone (EEZ). The report must look at areas of the EEZ where the Coast Guard failed to detect or stop such incursions during the four fiscal years starting with fiscal year 2000, including the Western/Central Pacific and the Bering Sea, and must evaluate using unmanned aircraft and offshore platforms. The Secretary must then send progress updates twice a year to the same two committees.

Title 16, §1828

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(a)Not later than 180 days after July 11, 2006, the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating shall provide to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives a report on steps that the Coast Guard will take to significantly improve the Coast Guard’s detection and interdiction of illegal incursions into the United States exclusive economic zone by foreign fishing vessels.

(b)The report shall—

(1)focus on areas in the exclusive economic zone where the Coast Guard has failed to detect or interdict such incursions in the 4-fiscal-year period beginning with fiscal year 2000, including such areas in the Western/Central Pacific and the Bering Sea; and

(2)include an evaluation of the potential use of unmanned aircraft and offshore platforms for detecting or interdicting such incursions.

(c)The Secretary shall provide biannual reports updating the Coast Guard’s progress in detecting or interdicting such incursions to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2006, and not as part of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act which comprises this chapter.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Combination of Fisheries

Enforcement

Plans and Foreign Fishing Incursion Reports Pub. L. 111–207, § 4(b), July 27, 2010, 124 Stat. 2251, as amended by Pub. L. 113–281, title II, § 221(a)(5), Dec. 18, 2014, 128 Stat. 3037, provided that: “The Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating shall combine the reports required under section 224 of the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2004 (16 U.S.C. 1861b) and section 804 of the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2006 (16 U.S.C. 1828) into a single annual report for fiscal years beginning after fiscal year 2010. No report shall be required under this subsection, including that no report shall be required under section 224 of the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2004 or section 804 of the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2006, for fiscal years beginning after fiscal year 2014.”

§1828 Foreign fishing incursions