Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-110

§8032 Strategic Plan

Title 16 › CHAPTER 99 — MARITIME SECURITY AND FISHERIES ENFORCEMENT › SUBCHAPTER II — ESTABLISHMENT OF INTERAGENCY WORKING GROUP ON IUU FISHING › § 8032

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Within 2 years after December 20, 2019, the Working Group must give several Senate and House committees (Senate: Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Foreign Relations; Appropriations. House: Transportation and Infrastructure; Natural Resources; Foreign Affairs; Appropriations) a 5-year integrated plan to fight illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing and to improve maritime security. The plan must include specific strategies and benchmarks to monitor progress in priority regions. The plan must name priority regions and priority flag states for the help coordinated under section 8031. Priority regions are areas at high risk of IUU fishing or illegally caught seafood entering markets and that lack the ability to fix the problem. Priority flag states are countries whose flagged vessels actively engage in, knowingly profit from, or are complicit in IUU fishing and that lack the ability to police their fleets.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §8032

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(a)Strategic plan

Not later than 2 years after December 20, 2019, the Working Group, after consultation with the relevant stakeholders, shall submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate, the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives, the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives, the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives a 5-year integrated strategic plan on combating IUU fishing and enhancing maritime security, including specific strategies with monitoring benchmarks for addressing IUU fishing in priority regions.

(b)Identification of priority regions and priority flag states

(1)In general

The strategic plan submitted under subsection (a) shall identify priority regions and priority flag states to be the focus of assistance coordinated by the Working Group under section 8031 of this title.

(2)Priority region selection criteria

In selecting priority regions under paragraph (1), the Working Group shall select regions that—

(A)are at high risk for IUU fishing activity or the entry of illegally caught seafood into their markets; and

(B)lack the capacity to fully address the issues described in subparagraph (A).

(3)Priority flag states selection criteria

In selecting priority flag states under paragraph (1), the Working Group shall select countries—

(A)the flagged vessels of which actively engage in, knowingly profit from, or are complicit in IUU fishing; and

(B)that lack the capacity to police their fleet.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 8032

Title 16, Conservation

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110