Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-110

§958 Cooperation with Other Agencies

Title 16 › CHAPTER 16 — TUNA CONVENTIONS › § 958

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of State may ask U.S. Commissioners to check how the commissions’ programs about exploring, developing, and conserving fishery resources fit with other agencies’ programs, and, if needed and agreed to by those agencies, set up joint cooperation to carry out their work. Federal agencies may, when the commissions ask, help with scientific or other programs and lend facilities and staff. The commissions may also lend facilities and staff to nonfederal groups to speed up research that the commissions judge will directly help the conventions’ goals.

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Title 16, §958

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(a)Coordination of programs

In order to provide coordination between the general annual programs of the commissions and programs of other agencies, relating to the exploration, development, and conservation of fishery resources, the Secretary of State may recommend to the United States Commissioners that they consider the relationship of the commissions’ programs to those of such agencies and when necessary arrange, with the concurrence of such agencies, for mutual cooperation between the commissions and such agencies for carrying out their respective programs.

(b)Scientific and other programs; facilities and personnel

All agencies of the Federal Government are authorized on request of the commissions to cooperate in the conduct of scientific and other programs, or to furnish facilities and personnel for the purpose of assisting the commissions in the performance of their duties.

(c)Facilities and personnel to non-Federal agencies

The commissions are authorized and empowered to supply facilities and personnel to existing non-Federal agencies to expedite research work which in the judgment of the commissions is contributing or will contribute directly to the purposes of the conventions.

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16 U.S.C. § 958

Title 16, Conservation

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110