16 USC 1867 - Cooperative research and management program

U.S Code last checked for updates: Nov 22, 2024

§ 1867.

Cooperative research and management program

(a)

In general

(b)

Eligible projects

(c)

Funding

In making funds available the Secretary shall award funding on a competitive basis and based on regional fishery management needs, select programs that form part of a coherent program of research focused on solving priority issues identified by the Councils, and shall give priority to the following projects:

(1)

Projects to collect data to improve, supplement, or enhance stock assessments, including the use of fishing vessels or acoustic or other marine technology.

(2)

Projects to assess the amount and type of bycatch or post-release mortality occurring in a fishery.

(3)

Conservation engineering projects designed to reduce bycatch, including avoidance of post-release mortality, reduction of bycatch in high seas fisheries, and transfer of such fishing technologies to other nations.

(4)

Projects for the identification of habitat areas of particular concern and for habitat conservation.

(5)

Projects designed to collect and compile economic and social data.

(d)

Experimental permitting process

(e)

Guidelines

(f)

Exempted projects

(Pub. L. 94–265, title III, § 318, as added Pub. L. 109–479, title II, § 204, Jan. 12, 2007, 120 Stat. 3614.)

cite as: 16 USC 1867