---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 1826e"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "1826e"
heading: "Negotiations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/1826e"
units:
  - "Chapter 38 — Fishery Conservation and Management"
  - "Subchapter III — Foreign Fishing and International Fishery Agreements"
---

# §1826e. Negotiations


The Secretary of State, on behalf of the [United States](/usc/16/1802.md?p=45), shall seek to enhance the implementation and effectiveness of the United Nations General Assembly resolutions and decisions regarding the moratorium on [large-scale driftnet fishing](/usc/16/1802.md?p=25) on the [high seas](/usc/16/1802.md?p=20) through appropriate international agreements and organizations.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 104–43, title VI, § 604, Nov. 3, 1995, 109 Stat. 392.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the High Seas Driftnet Fishing Moratorium Protection Act, and also as part of the Fisheries Act of 1995, and not as part of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act which comprises this chapter.