16 U.S.C. § 8003 — Statement of policy
submitted 7 years ago by Pub. L. 116-92 to r/title-16-CONSERVATION · 447 words · no verdicts yet
This section states United States policy concerning illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing. It lists goals involving enforcement, assistance, information sharing, maritime security, trade, labor abuses, organized crime, fisheries management, and technology.
This section lays out the United States' policy for fighting illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing around the world. It lists fourteen goals:
(1) Cut down the global trade in seafood that comes from IUU fishing, including its links to forced labor and organized crime.
(2) Build a full mix of diplomatic, military, law enforcement, economic, and capacity-building tools to fight IUU fishing.
(3) Give technical help to key regions and flag states linked to IUU fishing. This help should: strengthen local, national, and regional law enforcement and security forces against IUU fishing (A); improve port security, including helping other countries adopt and use the Port State Measures Agreement, a treaty that lets ports block ships suspected of illegal fishing (B); fight corruption and make fisheries management and trade more open and traceable (C); improve information sharing between governments and international groups, using agreed common standards (D); and support science-based fisheries management that keeps fishing legal and safe and discourages IUU fishing (E).
(4) Boost global maritime security by improving other countries' ability to track and monitor their waters.
(5) Work with key flag states — countries whose flags ships fly — to get them using high-quality vessel-tracking technology where it's currently missing.
(6) Work with international fisheries organizations, including Regional Fisheries Management Organizations and the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, to fight IUU fishing.
(7) Push for better information sharing across governments and international bodies on issues that cross multiple countries' waters, using an agreed standard.
(8) Keep using current and future trade agreements as tools against IUU fishing.
(9) Use U.S. government resources in a coordinated way to break up the illegal networks behind IUU fishing.
(10) Keep declassifying and sharing U.S.-developed technology that can help fight IUU fishing, when practical.
(11) Recognize that IUU fishing is tied to organized crime, including human trafficking and illegal drug and weapons trade, and respond to it in a coordinated way.
(12) Recognize and respond to poor working conditions, labor abuse, and violent crime in the fishing industry.
(13) Make the seafood supply chain more transparent and traceable, both as a way to deter IUU fishing (A) and to strengthen fisheries management and food security (B).
(14) Encourage new technology and innovation to fight IUU fishing.
It is the policy of the United States_1
to take action to curtail the global trade in seafood and seafood products derived from IUU fishing, including its links to forced labor and transnational organized illegal activity;
to develop holistic diplomatic, military, law enforcement, economic, and capacity-building tools to counter IUU fishing;
to provide technical assistance to countries in priority regions and priority flag states to combat IUU fishing, including assistance—
to increase local, national, and regional level capacities to counter IUU fishing through the engagement of law enforcement and security forces;
to enhance port capacity and security, including by supporting other countries in working toward the adoption and implementation of the Port State Measures Agreement;
to combat corruption and increase transparency and traceability in fisheries management and trade;
to enhance information sharing within and across governments and multilateral organizations through the development and use of agreed standards for information sharing; and
to support effective, science-based fisheries management regimes that promote legal and safe fisheries and act as a deterrent to IUU fishing;
to promote global maritime security through improved capacity and technological assistance to support improved maritime domain awareness;
to engage with priority flag states to encourage the use of high quality vessel tracking technologies where existing enforcement tools are lacking;
to engage with multilateral organizations working on fisheries issues, including Regional Fisheries Management Organizations and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, to combat and deter IUU fishing;
to advance information sharing across governments and multilateral organizations in areas that cross multiple jurisdictions, through the development and use of an agreed standard for information sharing;
to continue to use existing and future trade agreements to combat IUU fishing;
to employ appropriate assets and resources of the United States Government in a coordinated manner to disrupt the illicit networks involved in IUU fishing;
to continue to declassify and make available, as appropriate and practicable, technologies developed by the United States Government that can be used to help counter IUU fishing;
to recognize the ties of IUU fishing to transnational organized illegal activity, including human trafficking and illegal trade in narcotics and arms, and as applicable, to focus on illicit activity in a coordinated, cross-cutting manner;
to recognize and respond to poor working conditions, labor abuses, and other violent crimes in the fishing industry;
to increase and improve global transparency and traceability along the seafood supply chain as—
a deterrent to IUU fishing; and
an approach for strengthening fisheries management and food security; and
to promote technological investment and innovation to combat IUU fishing.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 116–92, div. C, title XXXV, § 3534, Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 2000.)
- 2019Enacted · Pub. L. 116-92 · 133 Stat. 2000
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