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Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102

§1152 Prohibitions

Title 16 › CHAPTER 24 — CONSERVATION AND PROTECTION OF NORTH PACIFIC FUR SEALS › SUBCHAPTER I — FUR SEAL MANAGEMENT › § 1152

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Anyone or any vessel under U.S. control must not take fur seals in the North Pacific or on U.S. lands or waters, or use U.S. ports for anything connected to that taking, unless this chapter or rules from the Secretary allow it. They also may not bring in, sell, or have fur seals or parts that were taken in violation of this law or the Convention. Outside the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone, U.S.-subject vessels must let authorized officials from Canada, Japan, or Russia board and search to check for illegal sealing.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §1152

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It is unlawful, except as provided in this chapter or by regulation of the Secretary, for any person or vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to engage in the taking of fur seals in the North Pacific Ocean or on lands or waters under the jurisdiction of the United States, or to use any port or harbor or other place under the jurisdiction of the United States for any purpose connected in any way with such taking, or for any person to transport, import, offer for sale, or possess at any port or place or on any vessel, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, fur seals or the parts thereof, including, but not limited to, raw, dressed, or dyed fur seal skins, taken contrary to the provisions of this chapter or the Convention, or for any person subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to refuse to permit, except within the Exclusive Economic Zone of the United States, a duly authorized official of Canada, Japan, or Russia to board and search any vessel which is outfitted for the harvesting of living marine resources and which is subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to determine whether such vessel is engaged in sealing contrary to the provisions of said Convention.

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Amendments

1993—Pub. L. 103–199 substituted “Russia” for “the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics”. 1983—Pub. L. 98–129 amended section generally, substituting provisions enumerating the activities prohibited under this chapter, which were previously contained in section 1151 of this title, for provisions authorizing sealing by Aleuts, Eskimos, and Indians. See section 1153 of this title.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 1152

Title 16, Conservation

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102