---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 7408"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "7408"
heading: "International cooperation and assistance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/7408"
units:
  - "Chapter 93 — Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing"
---

# §7408. International cooperation and assistance

- (a) **Assistance to developing nations and international organizations—** Consistent with existing authority and the availability of funds, the [Secretary](/usc/16/7402.md?p=7) shall provide appropriate assistance to developing nations and international organizations of which such nations are members to assist those nations in meeting their obligations under the [Agreement](/usc/16/7402.md?p=1).
- (b) **Personnel, services, equipment, and facilities—** In carrying out [subsection (a)](#a), the [Secretary](/usc/16/7402.md?p=7) may, by [agreement](/usc/16/7402.md?p=1), on a reimbursable or nonreimbursable basis, utilize the personnel, services, equipment, and facilities of any Federal, [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a), local, or foreign government or any entity of any such government.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 114–81, title III, § 309, Nov. 5, 2015, 129 Stat. 669.)