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Title 16 - CONSERVATIONChapter 99 - MARITIME SECURITY AND FISHERIES ENFORCEMENT
Subchapter I - PROGRAMS TO COMBAT IUU FISHING AND INCREASE MARITIME SECURITY
Section 8011 - Coordination with international organizations

16 U.S.C. § 8011

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Current through P.L. 118-106 (published on www.congress.gov on 10/04/2024)
Section 8011 - Coordination with international organizations

The Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce, shall coordinate with Regional Fisheries Management Organizations and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and may coordinate with other relevant international governmental or nongovernmental organizations, or the private sector, as appropriate, to enhance regional responses to IUU fishing and related transnational organized illegal activities.

16 U.S.C. § 8011

Pub. L. 116-92, div. C, title XXXV, §35413541,, 133 Stat. 2001.
IUU fishing
The term "IUU fishing" means illegal fishing, unreported fishing, or unregulated fishing (as such terms are defined in paragraph 3 of the International Plan of Action to Prevent, Deter, and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing, adopted at the 24th Session of the Committee on Fisheries in Rome on March 2, 2001).