Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73not60

§8016 Technology Programs

Title 16 › Chapter 99— MARITIME SECURITY AND FISHERIES ENFORCEMENT › Subchapter I— PROGRAMS TO COMBAT IUU FISHING AND INCREASE MARITIME SECURITY › § 8016

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Several federal leaders — like the Secretary of State, the USAID Administrator, the officials in charge of the Coast Guard, and the Secretaries of Defense and Commerce, plus other agency heads when needed — must run programs to expand technology to fight illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing. They must promote tech use, check tracking and data-sharing needs in priority regions and flag states, urge those flag states to require vessel tracking (for example VMS, AIS, or other movement-monitoring tools) on fishing and transshipment vessels at sea, and work with universities, nonprofits, the seafood industry, and tech, transportation, and logistics partners to use new and existing technologies and data analytics.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §8016

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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, and the heads of other Federal agencies, if merited, shall pursue programs, as appropriate, to expand the role of technology for combating IUU fishing, including by—

(1)promoting the use of technology to combat IUU fishing;

(2)assessing the technology needs, including vessel tracking technologies and data sharing, in priority regions and priority flag states;

(3)engaging with priority flag states to encourage the mandated use of vessel tracking technologies, including vessel monitoring systems, AIS, or other vessel movement monitoring technologies on fishing vessels and transshipment vessels at all times, as appropriate, while at sea as a means to identify IUU fishing activities and the shipment of illegally caught fish products; and

(4)building partnerships with the private sector, including universities, nonprofit research organizations, the seafood industry, and the technology, transportation and logistics sectors, to leverage new and existing technologies and data analytics to address IUU fishing.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 8016

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60