§8031 Interagency Working Group on Iuu Fishing

Summary

Creates a federal interagency working group focused on maritime security and illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing. The chair rotates every 3 years among the Coast Guard, the State Department, and NOAA. There are 2 deputy chairs from the two agencies that are not the chair. Twelve other members come from agencies such as Defense, the Navy, USAID, Fish and Wildlife Service, Justice, Treasury, Customs and Border Protection, ICE, FTC, Agriculture, FDA, and Labor. One or more intelligence community members are chosen by the Director of National Intelligence. Five members are appointed by the President from the NSC, Council on Environmental Quality, OMB, OSTP, and USTR. The group must coordinate a whole-of-government, global response to combat IUU fishing. It must help agencies find, stop, investigate, prosecute, and break up IUU fishing and those who benefit from it. The group must improve information sharing and set standards for maritime enforcement, harmonize import data fields, plan how military and intelligence resources can help, raise maritime domain awareness, support Port State Measures and shiprider agreements, work with partner governments, consult the seafood industry and NGOs, back international data and certification efforts (including actions under the High Seas Driftnet Act), and publish annual reports with nonsensitive summaries of its enforcement work.