16 U.S.C. § 8033 — Reports

Five years after the Working Group submits the 5-year strategic plan under section 8032 of this title, and every 5 years after that, the Working Group must send a report to several congressional committees — the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee; Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Senate Appropriations Committee; Senate Judiciary Committee; Senate Select Committee on Intelligence; Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee; House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee; House Natural Resources Committee; House Foreign Affairs Committee; and House Appropriations Committee. The report must include: (1) A summary of global and regional trends in illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing. (2) An assessment of how much IUU fishing overlaps with organized crime, including human trafficking and forced labor. (3) An assessment of what topics, data sources, and strategies would benefit from more information sharing, plus recommendations for making data collection and sharing more consistent. (4) An assessment of assets — including military assets and intelligence — that could be used for enforcement or strategies against IUU fishing. (5) Summaries of the threats from IUU fishing in priority regions, and an assessment of those regions' capacity to respond. (6) An assessment of the progress priority-region countries have made responding to those threats because of U.S. assistance under the strategic plan, including: (A) identifying, for each country, the supply routes, ports of call, methods used to bring illegal catch into legal supply chains, and financial institutions used by people involved in IUU fishing, plus signs that link IUU fishing to money laundering; (B) an assessment of how much these countries have adopted or moved toward international treaties like the Port State Measures Agreement; (C) an assessment of how well these countries can trace seafood to verify it's legal and strengthen fisheries management; (D) an assessment of these countries' capacity to carry out shiprider agreements; (E) an assessment of their capacity to build awareness of activity in their waters; and (F) an assessment of whether these countries' governments can sustain the programs the U.S. has funded. (7) An assessment of priority flag states' capacity to track and police their fishing fleets, stop their vessels from IUU fishing, and enforce their own laws. (8) An assessment of how much groups designated as foreign terrorist organizations under section 1189 of title 8 are involved in IUU fishing. (9) The status of work with global enforcement partners.