---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 3332"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "3332"
heading: "State program for reduction of overall fishing capacity"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/3332"
units:
  - "Chapter 52 — Salmon and Steelhead Conservation and Enhancement"
  - "Subchapter IV — Commercial Fishing Fleet Adjustment"
---

# §3332. State program for reduction of overall fishing capacity


The [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) shall submit to the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) a program within three months of December 22, 1980, designed to—

- (1) provide incentives for early retirement of licenses, or early sale of vessels;
- (2) set aside specific allocations of funds for each gear type to achieve the specific fleet reductions provided for in the program;
- (3) obtain an effective and expeditious reduction in the overall fishing capacity of and the number of vessels and licenses in the non-Indian commercial and charter [salmon](/usc/16/3302.md?p=11) fishing fleets in the [Washington conservation area](/usc/16/3302.md?p=17); and
- (4) provide [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) funding for 25 per centum of the total cost of the program.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–561, title I, § 131, Dec. 22, 1980, 94 Stat. 3284.)