---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 1141"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "1141"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/1141"
units:
  - "Chapter 22 — Sea Grant Colleges and Marine Science Development"
  - "Subchapter III — Young Fishermen’s Development"
---

# §1141. Definitions


In this subchapter:

- (1) **Sea Grant Institution—** The term “Sea Grant Institution” means a [sea grant college](/usc/33/1122.md?p=12) or [sea grant institute](/usc/33/1122.md?p=13), as those terms are defined in [section 1122 of this title](/usc/33/1122.md).
- (2) **Tribal organization—** The term “Tribal organization” has the meaning given the term “tribal organization” in [section 5304 of title 25](/usc/25/5304.md).
- (3) **Young fisherman—** The term “young fisherman” means an individual who—
  - (A) desires to participate in the commercial fisheries of the United States, including the Great Lakes fisheries;
  - (B) has worked as a captain, crew member, or deckhand on a commercial fishing vessel for not more than 10 years of cumulative service; or
  - (C) is a beginning commercial fisherman.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 116–289, § 2, Jan. 5, 2021, 134 Stat. 4886.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Young Fishermen’s Development Act, and not as part of titles I and II of Pub. L. 89–454 which comprise this chapter.