Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73not60
§726 Acts Prohibited in Refuge; Commercial Fishing
Title 16 › Chapter 8— UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER NATIONAL WILDLIFE AND FISH REFUGE › § 726
Summary
Do not enter a wildlife refuge or disturb, hurt, kill, or take its wild birds, game animals, fur-bearing animals, fish or other aquatic animals, plants, nests, eggs, trees, or U.S. property unless you follow rules the Secretary of the Interior sets for those animals and plants. Commercial fishing in the refuge waters is allowed only under those rules.
Full Legal Text
Title 16, §726
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No person shall, except in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior in respect of wild birds, game animals, fur-bearing animals, wild flowers, and aquatic plants, or in respect of fish and other aquatic-animal life—
(a)Enter the refuge for any purpose; or
(b)Disturb, injure, kill, or remove, or attempt to disturb, injure, kill, or remove any wild bird, game animal, fur-bearing animal, fish, or other aquatic-animal life, on the refuge; or
(c)Remove from the refuge, or injure or destroy thereon any flower, plant, tree, or other natural growth, or the nest or egg of any wild bird; or
(d)Injure or destroy any notice, sign board, fence, building, or other property of the United States thereon.Commercial fishing may, however, be conducted in the waters of this refuge under regulation by the Secretary of the Interior.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Codification Section is a combination of section 6 and 7 of act June 7, 1924, the last sentence only being from section 7.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
For transfer of certain
Enforcement
functions of Secretary or other official in Department of the Interior under this chapter to Federal Inspector, Office of Federal Inspector for the Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System, and subsequent transfer to Secretary of Energy, then to Federal Coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects, see
Transfer of Functions
note set out under section 725 of this title.
Transfer of Functions
of Secretary of Agriculture and Secretary of Commerce to Secretary of the Interior by Reorg. Plan No. II of 1939, see
Transfer of Functions
note set out under section 723 of this title.
Reference
Citations & Metadata
Citation
16 U.S.C. § 726
Title 16 — Conservation
Last Updated
Apr 5, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60