§5505 — Title 16 Conservation | U.S. Code

Summary

It is illegal for people under U.S. authority to break rules about high seas fishing. That includes using a high-seas fishing boat in ways that ignore international conservation measures, sailing without a valid permit, or breaking the terms of a permit. It also bans lying or withholding required reports, refusing to let an authorized official board a vessel for an inspection, attacking or blocking an official, resisting arrest, helping someone avoid arrest, and trading in or keeping marine life taken in violation of the rules. Breaking any rule, regulation, or permit under this law is also unlawful.

Title 16, §5505

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It is unlawful for any person subject to the jurisdiction of the United States—

(1)to use a high seas fishing vessel on the high seas in contravention of international conservation and management measures described in section 5504(e) of this title;

(2)to use a high seas fishing vessel on the high seas, unless the vessel has on board a valid permit issued under section 5503 of this title;

(3)to use a high seas fishing vessel in violation of the conditions or restrictions of a permit issued under section 5503 of this title;

(4)to falsify any information required to be reported, communicated, or recorded pursuant to this chapter or any regulation issued under this chapter, or to fail to submit in a timely fashion any required information, or to fail to report to the Secretary immediately any change in circumstances that has the effect of rendering any such information false, incomplete, or misleading;

(5)to refuse to permit an authorized officer to board a high seas fishing vessel subject to such person’s control for purposes of conducting any search or inspection in connection with the enforcement of this chapter or any regulation issued under this chapter;

(6)to forcibly assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, or interfere with an authorized officer in the conduct of any search or inspection described in paragraph (5);

(7)to resist a lawful arrest or detention for any act prohibited by this section;

(8)to interfere with, delay, or prevent, by any means, the apprehension, arrest, or detection of another person, knowing that such person has committed any act prohibited by this section;

(9)to ship, transport, offer for sale, sell, purchase, import, export, or have custody, control, or possession of, any living marine resource taken or retained in violation of this chapter or any regulation or permit issued under this chapter; or

(10)to violate any provision of this chapter or any regulation or permit issued under this chapter.

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Effective Date

Section effective 120 days after Nov. 3, 1995, see section 111 of Pub. L. 104–43, set out as a note under section 5501 of this title.

§5505 Unlawful activities

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Title 16, §5505

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