---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460o–5"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460o–5"
heading: "Hunting and fishing"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460o-5"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXXIII — Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area"
---

# §460o–5. Hunting and fishing


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior shall permit hunting and fishing on lands and waters under his jurisdiction within the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) in accordance with the applicable laws and regulations of the [States](/usc/16/544.md?p=r) concerned and of the United States. The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior may designate zones where, and establish periods when, no hunting shall be permitted for reasons of public safety, wildlife management, administration, or public use and enjoyment not compatible with hunting, and may, in his plan for the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A), provide [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) for intensive [fish and wildlife](/usc/16/3102.md?p=17) management, including public hunting and fishing, and shall issue appropriate regulations after consultation with appropriate officials of the [States](/usc/16/544.md?p=r) concerned. The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior shall encourage such officials to adopt uniform regulations applicable to the whole of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation [Area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–158, § 6, Sept. 1, 1965, 79 Stat. 614.)