---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 2435"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "2435"
heading: "Unlawful activities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/2435"
units:
  - "Chapter 44A — Antarctic Marine Living Resources Convention"
---

# §2435. Unlawful activities


It is unlawful for any [person](/usc/16/2432.md?p=8)—

- (1) to engage in [harvesting or other associated activities](/usc/16/2432.md?p=5) in [violation](/usc/16/620e.md?p=11) of the provisions of the [Convention](/usc/16/2432.md?p=4) or in [violation](/usc/16/620e.md?p=11) of a conservation measure in force with respect to the United States pursuant to article IX of the [Convention](/usc/16/2432.md?p=4);
- (2) to violate any regulation promulgated under this chapter;
- (3) to ship, transport, offer for sale, sell, purchase, [import](/usc/16/2432.md?p=7), export, or have custody, control or possession of, any Antarctic marine living resource (or part or product thereof) harvested in [violation](/usc/16/620e.md?p=11) of a conservation measure in force with respect to the United States pursuant to article IX of the [Convention](/usc/16/2432.md?p=4) or in [violation](/usc/16/620e.md?p=11) of any regulation promulgated under this chapter, without regard to the citizenship of the [person](/usc/16/2432.md?p=8) that harvested, or vessel that was used in the [harvesting](/usc/16/2432.md?p=5) of, the Antarctic marine living resource (or part or product thereof);
- (4) to refuse to permit any authorized officer or employee of the United States to board a [vessel of the United States](/usc/16/2432.md?p=10) or a [vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States](/usc/16/2432.md?p=11) for purposes of conducting any search, investigation, or inspection in connection with the enforcement of the [Convention](/usc/16/2432.md?p=4), this chapter, or any regulations promulgated under this chapter;
- (5) to assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, or interfere with any authorized officer or employee of the United States in the conduct of any search, investigation, or inspection described in [paragraph (4)](#4);
- (6) to resist a lawful arrest or detention for any act prohibited by this section; or
- (7) to interfere with, delay, or prevent, by any means, the apprehension, arrest, or detention of another [person](/usc/16/2432.md?p=8), knowing that such other [person](/usc/16/2432.md?p=8) has committed any act prohibited by this section.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 98–623, title III, § 306, Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3401; Pub. L. 114–81, title I, § 106(1), Nov. 5, 2015, 129 Stat. 657.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2015—Par. (3). Pub. L. 114–81, § 106(1)(A), struck out “which he knows, or reasonably should have known, was” before “harvested in violation”.

Pars. (4), (5). Pub. L. 114–81, § 106(1)(B), (C), inserted “, investigation,” after “search”.