---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 941d"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "941d"
heading: "Goals of United States Fish and Wildlife Service programs related to Great Lakes fish and wildlife resources"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/941d"
units:
  - "Chapter 15B — Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration"
---

# §941d. Goals of United States Fish and Wildlife Service programs related to Great Lakes fish and wildlife resources


In administering programs of the United States [Fish and Wildlife](/usc/16/3102.md?p=17) Service related to the [Great Lakes Basin](/usc/16/941b.md?p=3), the [Director](/usc/16/941b.md?p=2) shall seek to achieve the following goals:

- (1) Restoring and maintaining self-sustaining [fish and wildlife](/usc/16/3102.md?p=17) resources.
- (2) Minimizing the impacts of contaminants on fishery and wildlife resources.
- (3) Protecting, maintaining, and, where degraded and destroyed, restoring [fish and wildlife](/usc/16/3102.md?p=17) habitat, including the enhancement and creation of wetlands that result in a net gain in the amount of those habitats.
- (4) Stopping illegal activities adversely impacting fishery and wildlife resources.
- (5) Restoring threatened and endangered species to viable, self-sustaining levels.
- (6) Protecting, managing, and conserving migratory birds.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–537, title I, § 1006, Nov. 8, 1990, 104 Stat. 2373; Pub. L. 101–646, title II, § 2006, Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 4777; Pub. L. 104–332, § 2(h)(1), Oct. 26, 1996, 110 Stat. 4091; Pub. L. 105–265, § 3(b), Oct. 19, 1998, 112 Stat. 2358; Pub. L. 109–326, § 5, Oct. 11, 2006, 120 Stat. 1764.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Title I of Pub. L. 101–537 and title II of Pub. L. 101–646 enacted identical sections. Title II of Pub. L. 101–646 was repealed by Pub. L. 105–265.

### Amendments

2006—Par. (1). Pub. L. 109–326 added par. (1) and struck out former par. (1) which read as follows: “Restoring and maintaining self-sustaining fishery resource populations.”

1996—Pub. L. 104–332 made technical amendment to Pub. L. 101–646, § 2006, which enacted this section.