Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73

§8014 Expansion of existing mechanisms to combat IUU fishing

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 99— - MARITIME SECURITY AND FISHERIES ENFORCEMENT › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - PROGRAMS TO COMBAT IUU FISHING AND INCREASE MARITIME SECURITY › § 8014

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Federal agencies must look for ways to expand tools to stop illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing. They must consider adding IUU work to existing shiprider agreements, making new shiprider agreements with key flag states and countries, including IUU in the Combined Maritime Forces’ mission, putting IUU exercises into the Department of Defense/Coast Guard at-sea drills, and creating regional partnerships like the Oceania Maritime Security Initiative and the Africa Maritime Law Enforcement Partnership. The Director of National Intelligence must build a government-wide plan to share information and data on IUU fishing and related transnational crimes with other agencies, other countries, NGOs, and private partners. The plan should use big data analytics and machine learning when appropriate.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §8014

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(a)The Secretary of State, the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, the Secretary of the Department in which the Coast Guard is operating when it is not operating as a service in the Department of the Navy, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Commerce, the Attorney General, and the heads of other appropriate Federal agencies shall assess opportunities to combat IUU fishing by expanding, as appropriate, the use of the following mechanisms:

(1)Including counter-IUU fishing in existing shiprider agreements in which the United States is a party.

(2)Entering into shiprider agreements that include counter-IUU fishing with priority flag states and countries in priority regions with which the United States does not already have such an agreement.

(3)Including counter-IUU fishing as part of the mission of the Combined Maritime Forces.

(4)Including counter-IUU fishing exercises in the annual at-sea exercises conducted by the Department of Defense, in coordination with the United States Coast Guard.

(5)Creating partnerships similar to the Oceania Maritime Security Initiative and the Africa Maritime Law Enforcement Partnership in other priority regions.

(b)The Director of National Intelligence, in conjunction with other agencies, as appropriate, shall develop an enterprise approach to appropriately share information and data within the United States Government or with other countries or nongovernmental organizations, or the private sector, as appropriate, on IUU fishing and other connected transnational organized illegal activity occurring in priority regions and elsewhere, including big data analytics and machine learning.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 8014

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73