---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 3202"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "3202"
heading: "Taking of fish and wildlife"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/3202"
units:
  - "Chapter 51 — Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation"
  - "Subchapter VI — Administrative Provisions"
---

# §3202. Taking of fish and wildlife

- (a) **Responsibility and authority of State of Alaska—** Nothing in this Act is intended to enlarge or diminish the responsibility and authority of the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Alaska for management of [fish and wildlife](/usc/16/3102.md?p=17) on the [public lands](/usc/16/620e.md?p=7) except as may be provided in subchapter II of this chapter, or to amend the Alaska constitution.
- (b) **Responsibility and authority of Secretary—** Except as specifically provided otherwise by this Act, nothing in this Act is intended to enlarge or diminish the responsibility and authority of the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) over the management of the [public lands](/usc/16/620e.md?p=7).
- (c) **Areas controlled; areas closed, exceptions—** The [taking](/usc/16/3102.md?p=18) of [fish and wildlife](/usc/16/3102.md?p=17) in all [conservation system units](/usc/16/3102.md?p=4), and in national conservation [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A), national recreation [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A), and national forests, shall be carried out in accordance with the provisions of this Act and other applicable [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) and Federal law. Those [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) designated as national [parks](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) or national [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) system monuments in the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) shall be closed to the [taking](/usc/16/3102.md?p=18) of [fish and wildlife](/usc/16/3102.md?p=17), except that—
  - (1) notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall administer those [units](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4) of the National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) System, and those [additions](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-2) to existing [units](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4), established by this Act and which permit subsistence uses, to provide an opportunity for the continuance of such uses by local rural residents; and
  - (2) fishing shall be permitted by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) in accordance with the provisions of this Act and other applicable [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) and Federal law.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–487, title XIII, § 1314, Dec. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 2484.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This Act, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 96–487, Dec. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 2371, known as the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 3101 of this title and Tables.