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16 U.S.C. § 1826d

Prohibition

United States · Title 16 — CONSERVATION · Status: effective

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16 U.S.C. § 1826d, Prohibition, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/447229
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The United States, or any agency or official acting on behalf of the United States, may not enter into any international agreement with respect to the conservation and management of living marine resources or the use of the high seas by fishing vessels that would prevent full implementation of the global moratorium on large-scale driftnet fishing on the high seas, as such moratorium is expressed in Resolution 46/215 of the United Nations General Assembly.

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The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone.