---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 7806"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "7806"
heading: "Prohibited acts."
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/7806"
units:
  - "Chapter 97 — Convention on the Conservation and Management of High Seas Fishery Resources in the South Pacific"
---

# §7806. Prohibited acts.


It is unlawful for any [person](/usc/16/7801.md?p=9)—

- (1) to violate any provision of this chapter or of any regulation promulgated or permit issued under this chapter;
- (2) to use any [fishing vessel](/usc/16/7801.md?p=8) to engage in [fishing](/usc/16/7801.md?p=7) without a valid permit or after the revocation, or during the period of suspension, of an applicable permit pursuant to this chapter;
- (3) to refuse to permit any officer authorized to enforce this chapter to board a [fishing vessel](/usc/16/7801.md?p=8) subject to such [person](/usc/16/7801.md?p=9)’s control for the purposes of conducting any investigation or inspection in connection with the enforcement of this chapter;
- (4) to assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, or interfere with any such authorized officer in the conduct of any search, investigation, or inspection in connection with the enforcement of this chapter or any regulation promulgated or permit issued under this chapter;
- (5) to resist a lawful arrest for any act prohibited by this chapter or any regulation promulgated or permit issued under this chapter;
- (6) to ship, transport, offer for sale, sell, purchase, import, export, or have custody, control, or possession of, any [fishery resources](/usc/16/7801.md?p=6) taken or retained in [violation](/usc/16/620e.md?p=11) of this chapter or any regulation or permit referred to in paragraph [(1)](#1) or [(2)](#2);
- (7) to interfere with, delay, or prevent, by any means, the apprehension or arrest of another [person](/usc/16/7801.md?p=9), knowing that such other [person](/usc/16/7801.md?p=9) has committed any act prohibited by this chapter;
- (8) to submit to the [Secretary](/usc/16/7801.md?p=10) false information, regarding any matter that the [Secretary](/usc/16/7801.md?p=10) is considering in the course of carrying out this chapter;
- (9) to assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, sexually harass, bribe, or interfere with any observer on a vessel pursuant to the requirements of this chapter, or any data collector employed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or under contract to any [person](/usc/16/7801.md?p=9) to carry out responsibilities under this chapter;
- (10) to fail to make, keep, or furnish any catch returns, statistical records, or other reports as are required by regulations adopted pursuant to this chapter to be made, kept, or furnished;
- (11) to fail to stop a vessel upon being hailed and instructed to stop by a duly authorized official of the United States;
- (12) to import, in [violation](/usc/16/620e.md?p=11) of any regulation promulgated under this chapter, any [fishery resources](/usc/16/7801.md?p=6) in any form of those species subject to regulation pursuant to a decision of the [Commission](/usc/16/7801.md?p=2);
- (13) to make or submit any false record, account, or label for, or any false identification of, any [fishery resources](/usc/16/7801.md?p=6) that have been or are intended to be imported, exported, transported, sold, offered for sale, purchased, or received in interstate or foreign commerce; or
- (14) to refuse to authorize and accept boarding by a duly authorized inspector pursuant to procedures adopted by the [Commission](/usc/16/7801.md?p=2) for the boarding and inspection of [fishing vessels](/usc/16/7801.md?p=8) in the [Convention Area](/usc/16/7801.md?p=3).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 114–327, title II, § 206, Dec. 16, 2016, 130 Stat. 1991.)