---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 8018"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "8018"
heading: "Capacity building in foreign fisheries"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/8018"
units:
  - "Chapter 99 — Maritime Security and Fisheries Enforcement"
  - "Subchapter I — Programs to Combat Iuu Fishing and Increase Maritime Security"
---

# §8018. Capacity building in foreign fisheries


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1), in consultation with the heads of other Federal agencies, as appropriate, shall develop and carry out with partner governments and civil society—

- (1) multi-year international environmental cooperation agreements and [projects](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4); and
- (2) multi-year capacity-building [projects](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4) for implementing measures to address illegal, unreported, or unregulated fishing, fraud, forced labor, bycatch, and other conservation measures.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 117–263, div. K, title CXIII, § 11339(a), Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 4105.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Don Young Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2022 and also as part of the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023, and not as part of the Maritime Security and Fisheries Enforcement Act or the Maritime SAFE Act which comprises this chapter.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Definitions

For definitions of terms used in this section, see section 11329 of div. K of Pub. L. 117–263, set out as a note under section 1885a of this title.