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16 U.S.C. § 7706Prohibited acts

submitted 10 years ago by Pub. L. 114-327 to r/title-16-CONSERVATION · 552 words · no verdicts yet

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This law lists actions that are illegal under the fishing rules in this chapter. It bans fishing without a permit, blocking inspections, and fighting officers or observers. It also bans lying to the government and trading illegally caught fish.

It is against the law for anyone to: (1) break this chapter or any rule or permit issued under it; (2) use a fishing boat to fish without a valid permit under this chapter, or after that permit has been taken away or while it is suspended; (3) refuse to let an officer with authority to enforce this chapter board a fishing boat under that person's control, to search, investigate, or inspect it as part of enforcing this chapter, a rule, a permit, or the North Pacific Fisheries Convention; (4) attack, resist, block, intimidate, or interfere with such an officer while the officer searches, investigates, or inspects for the same reasons; (5) resist a lawful arrest for anything this chapter, its rules, or its permits make illegal; (6) ship, transport, offer for sale, sell, buy, import, export, or have custody, control, or possession of any fish resources taken or kept in violation of this chapter or a rule or permit described in (1) or (2); (7) interfere with, delay, or prevent someone's arrest, in any way, knowing that person broke this section; (8) give the Secretary false information — including false claims about how much of a fishery's yield a U.S. fish processor will actually process using U.S. fishing boats — about anything the Secretary is considering under this chapter; (9) attack, resist, block, intimidate, sexually harass, bribe, or interfere with an observer on a boat covered by this chapter, or a data collector hired to carry out duties under this chapter; (10) fish in violation of any rule adopted under this chapter; (11) fail to make, keep, or hand over catch records, statistics, or other reports that rules under this chapter require; (12) fail to stop a boat when a properly authorized U.S. official signals and orders it to stop; (13) import fish resources in violation of a rule adopted under this chapter — for species the Commission has made a recommendation, resolution, or decision about, or fish resources not yet regulated but under Commission investigation — while the law is currently denying entry to those resources; (14) make or submit a false record, account, label, or identification for fish resources that have been, or are meant to be, imported, exported, transported, sold, offered for sale, bought, or received in interstate or foreign trade; or (15) refuse to allow boarding by a properly authorized inspector under the Commission's own boarding-and-inspection rules for fishing boats in the Convention Area.
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It is unlawful for any person

(1)

to violate this chapter or any regulation or permit issued under this chapter;

(2)

to use any fishing vessel to engage in fishing activities without, or after the revocation or during the period of suspension of, an applicable permit issued pursuant to this chapter;

(3)

to refuse to permit any officer authorized to enforce this chapter to board a fishing vessel subject to such person’s control for the purposes of conducting any search, investigation, or inspection in connection with the enforcement of this chapter or any regulation, permit, or the North Pacific Fisheries Convention;

(4)

to assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, or interfere with any such authorized officer in the conduct of any search, investigation, or inspection in connection with the enforcement of this chapter or any regulation, permit, or the North Pacific Fisheries Convention;

(5)

to resist a lawful arrest for any act prohibited by this chapter or any regulation promulgated or permit issued under this chapter;

(6)

to ship, transport, offer for sale, sell, purchase, import, export, or have custody, control, or possession of, any fisheries resources taken or retained in violation of this chapter or any regulation or permit referred to in paragraph (1) or (2);

(7)

to interfere with, delay, or prevent, by any means, the apprehension or arrest of another person, knowing that such other person has committed any act prohibited by this section;

(8)

to submit to the Secretary false information (including false information regarding the capacity and extent to which a United States fish processor, on an annual basis, will process a portion of the optimum yield of a fishery that will be harvested by fishing vessels of the United States), regarding any matter that the Secretary is considering in the course of carrying out this chapter;

(9)

to assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, sexually harass, bribe, or interfere with any observer on a vessel under this chapter, or any data collector employed by or under contract to any person to carry out responsibilities under this chapter;

(10)

to engage in fishing activities in violation of any regulation adopted pursuant to this chapter;

(11)

to fail to make, keep, or furnish any catch returns, statistical records, or other reports required by regulations adopted pursuant to this chapter to be made, kept, or furnished;

(12)

to fail to stop a vessel upon being hailed and instructed to stop by a duly authorized official of the United States;

(13)

to import, in violation of any regulation adopted pursuant to this chapter, any fisheries resources in any form of those species subject to regulation pursuant to a recommendation, resolution, or decision of the Commission, or any fisheries resources in any form not under regulation but under investigation by the Commission, during the period such fisheries resources have been denied entry in accordance with this chapter;

(14)

to make or submit any false record, account, or label for, or any false identification of, any fisheries resources that have been, or are intended to be imported, exported, transported, sold, offered for sale, purchased, or received in interstate or foreign commerce; or

(15)

to refuse to authorize and accept boarding by a duly authorized inspector pursuant to procedures adopted by the Commission for the boarding and inspection of fishing vessels in the Convention Area.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 114–327, title I, § 106, Dec. 16, 2016, 130 Stat. 1982.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 2016Enacted · Pub. L. 114-327 · 130 Stat. 1982

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 114-327 on 2016-12-16.

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