---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 7405"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "7405"
heading: "Inspections"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/7405"
units:
  - "Chapter 93 — Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing"
---

# §7405. Inspections


The [Secretary](/usc/16/7402.md?p=7), and the [Secretary](/usc/16/7402.md?p=7) of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating, shall conduct foreign [vessel](/usc/16/7402.md?p=8) inspections in ports subject to the jurisdiction of the United States as necessary to achieve the purposes of the [Agreement](/usc/16/7402.md?p=1) and this chapter. If, following an inspection, the [Secretary](/usc/16/7402.md?p=7) has reasonable grounds to believe that a foreign [vessel](/usc/16/7402.md?p=8) has engaged in [IUU fishing](/usc/16/7402.md?p=2) or [fishing](/usc/16/7402.md?p=10)-related activities in support of such [fishing](/usc/16/7402.md?p=10), the [Secretary](/usc/16/7402.md?p=7) may [take](/usc/16/3102.md?p=18) enforcement action under this chapter or other applicable law, and shall deny the [vessel](/usc/16/7402.md?p=8) the use of port services, in accordance with [section 7404 of this title](/usc/16/7404.md).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 114–81, title III, § 306, Nov. 5, 2015, 129 Stat. 667.)