16 U.S.C. § 8032 — Strategic plan

(a) Strategic plan — Within 2 years after December 20, 2019, the Working Group, after consulting relevant stakeholders, must send several congressional committees — the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee; the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; the Senate Appropriations Committee; the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee; the House Natural Resources Committee; the House Foreign Affairs Committee; and the House Appropriations Committee — a 5-year integrated strategic plan for fighting illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing and strengthening maritime security. The plan must include specific strategies with benchmarks for tracking progress against IUU fishing in priority regions. (b) Identification of priority regions and priority flag states — (1) In general — The strategic plan must name the priority regions and priority flag states that will get assistance coordinated by the Working Group under section 8031 of this title. (2) Priority region selection criteria — The Working Group must pick regions that (A) are at high risk for IUU fishing or for illegally caught seafood entering their markets, and (B) lack the capacity to fully deal with that risk. (3) Priority flag states selection criteria — The Working Group must pick countries (A) whose flagged vessels actively engage in, knowingly profit from, or are complicit in IUU fishing, and (B) that lack the capacity to police their fishing fleet.