---
kind: "unit"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
key: "ch16"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 16"
heading: "Tuna Conventions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/ch16"
sections_count: 12
---

# Chapter 16 — Tuna Conventions

Title 16 — Conservation

## Sections

- [§951. Definitions](/usc/16/951.md)
- [§952. Commissioners](/usc/16/952.md)
- [§953. General Advisory Committee and Scientific Advisory Subcommittee](/usc/16/953.md)
- [§954. Repealed.](/usc/16/954.md)
- [§955. Rulemaking](/usc/16/955.md)
- [§956. Inspection of returns, records, or other reports](/usc/16/956.md)
- [§957. Violations; fines and forfeitures; application of related laws](/usc/16/957.md)
- [§958. Cooperation with other agencies](/usc/16/958.md)
- [§959. Enforcement](/usc/16/959.md)
- [§960. Commissions’ functions not restrained by this chapter or State laws](/usc/16/960.md)
- [§961. Authorization of appropriations](/usc/16/961.md)
- [§962. Reduction of bycatch in eastern tropical Pacific Ocean](/usc/16/962.md)