---
kind: "unit"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
key: "ch99"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 99"
heading: "Maritime Security and Fisheries Enforcement"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/ch99"
sections_count: 16
---

# Chapter 99 — Maritime Security and Fisheries Enforcement

Title 16 — Conservation

## Sections

- [§8001. Definitions](/usc/16/8001.md)
- [§8002. Purposes](/usc/16/8002.md)
- [§8003. Statement of policy](/usc/16/8003.md)

## Contents

- [Subchapter I — Programs to Combat Iuu Fishing and Increase Maritime Security](/usc/16/ch99-schI.md)
- [Subchapter II — Establishment of Interagency Working Group on Iuu Fishing](/usc/16/ch99-schII.md)
- [Subchapter III — Authorization of Appropriations](/usc/16/ch99-schIII.md)