16 U.S.C. § 8033: Reports

Summary

Within 5 years after the 5-year integrated strategic plan is sent, and every 5 years after that, the Working Group must send a report to several Senate and House committees, including Commerce, Foreign Relations, Appropriations, Judiciary, Intelligence, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, Natural Resources, and Foreign Affairs. The report must cover trends in IUU (illegal, unreported, and unregulated) fishing worldwide and by region. It must look at links between IUU fishing and transnational crime like human trafficking and forced labor. It must say what kinds of data and strategies need better information sharing and suggest how to line up data collection. It must list assets, including military and intelligence, that can help enforcement. It must describe threats and the ability of countries in priority regions to respond, and report on progress from U.S. help—covering supply routes and ports, ways illegal catch enters legal markets, financial channels and money‑laundering signs, treaty adoption (including the Port State Measures Agreement), seafood traceability, shiprider and maritime awareness capacity, and whether countries can sustain U.S.-supported programs. It must also assess flag states’ ability to police their fleets, whether U.S.-listed foreign terrorist organizations are involved, and the status of work with global enforcement partners.

Title 16, §8033

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Not later than 5 years after the submission of the 5-year integrated strategic plan under section 8032 of this title, and 5 years after, the Working Group shall submit a report 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 the Judiciary of the Senate, the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate, the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry 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 that contains—

(1)a summary of global and regional trends in IUU fishing;

(2)an assessment of the extent of the convergence between transnational organized illegal activity, including human trafficking and forced labor, and IUU fishing;

(3)an assessment of the topics, data sources, and strategies that would benefit from increased information sharing and recommendations regarding harmonization of data collection and sharing;

(4)an assessment of assets, including military assets and intelligence, which can be used for either enforcement operations or strategies to combat IUU fishing;

(5)summaries of the situational threats with respect to IUU fishing in priority regions and an assessment of the capacity of countries within such regions to respond to those threats;

(6)an assessment of the progress of countries in priority regions in responding to those threats as a result of assistance by the United States pursuant to the strategic plan developed under section 8032 of this title, including—

(A)the identification of—

(i)relevant supply routes, ports of call, methods of landing and entering illegally caught product into legal supply chains, and financial institutions used in each country by participants engaging in IUU fishing; and

(ii)indicators of IUU fishing that are related to money laundering;

(B)an assessment of the adherence to, or progress toward adoption of, international treaties related to IUU fishing, including the Port State Measures Agreement, by countries in priority regions;

(C)an assessment of the implementation by countries in priority regions of seafood traceability or capacity to apply traceability to verify the legality of catch and strengthen fisheries management;

(D)an assessment of the capacity of countries in priority regions to implement shiprider agreements;

(E)an assessment of the capacity of countries in priority regions to increase maritime domain awareness; and

(F)an assessment of the capacity of governments of relevant countries in priority regions to sustain the programs for which the United States has provided assistance under this chapter;

(7)an assessment of the capacity of priority flag states to track the movement of and police their fleet, prevent their flagged vessels from engaging in IUU fishing, and enforce applicable laws and regulations;

(8)an assessment of the extent of involvement in IUU fishing of organizations designated as foreign terrorist organizations under section 1189 of title 8; and

(9)the status of work with global enforcement partners.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This chapter, referred to in par. (6)(F), was in the original “this subtitle”, meaning subtitle C of title XXXV of div. C of Pub. L. 116–92, Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 1997, known as the Maritime Security and Fisheries

Enforcement

Act and also as the Maritime SAFE Act, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 8001 of this title and Tables.

Amendments

2022—Par. (9). Pub. L. 117–263 added par. (9).

§8033 Reports