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§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 Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Within 2 years after December 20, 2019, the Working Group must, after talking with relevant stakeholders, send a five-year plan to certain Senate and House committees (Senate: Commerce, Foreign Relations, Appropriations; House: Transportation and Infrastructure, Natural Resources, Foreign Affairs, Appropriations). The plan must focus on fighting illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing and improving maritime security, and include clear strategies and measurable benchmarks to track progress in priority areas. The plan must name priority regions and priority flag states for help. Priority regions are places at high risk of IUU fishing or illegally caught seafood entering their markets and that lack the ability to deal with it. Priority flag states are countries whose flagged vessels take part in or profit from IUU fishing and that cannot effectively police their fleets.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §8032

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(a)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)(1)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)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)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

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60