§ 758a. — Conduct of explorations and related work in Pacific Ocean.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC758a]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 9A--PRESERVATION OF FISHERY RESOURCES
Sec. 758a. Conduct of explorations and related work in Pacific
Ocean
The Secretary of Commerce is authorized and directed to conduct such
fishing explorations and such necessary related work as oceanographical,
biological, technological, statistical, and economic studies to insure
maximum development and utilization of the high seas fishery resources
of the United States and its island possessions in the tropical and
subtropical Pacific Ocean and intervening areas as may be consistent
with developing and sustaining such fishery resources at maximum levels
of production in perpetuity and to provide for the best possible
utilization thereof.
(Aug. 4, 1947, ch. 451, Sec. 2, 61 Stat. 726; Pub. L. 86-624,
Sec. 11(a), July 12, 1960, 74 Stat. 412; 1970 Reorg. Plan No. 4, eff.
Oct. 3, 1970, 35 F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090.)
Amendments
1960--Pub. L. 86-624 substituted ``the United States and its island
possessions'' for ``the Territories and island possessions of the United
States''.
Transfer of Functions
``Secretary of Commerce'' substituted for ``Secretary of the
Interior, through the United States Fish and Wildlife Service of the
Department of the Interior,'' in view of: creation of National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration in Department of Commerce and Office of
Administrator of such Administration; abolition of Bureau of Commercial
Fisheries in Department of the Interior and Office of Director of such
Bureau; transfers of functions, including functions formerly vested by
law in Secretary of the Interior or Department of the Interior which
were administered through Bureau of Commercial Fisheries or were
primarily related to such Bureau, exclusive of certain enumerated
functions with respect to Great Lakes fishery research, Missouri River
Reservoir research, Gulf Breeze Biological Laboratory, and Trans-Alaska
pipeline investigations; and transfer of marine sport fish program of
Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife by Reorg. Plan No. 4 of 1970,
eff. Oct. 3, 1970, 35 F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090, set out in the Appendix
to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
United States Fish and Wildlife Service, consisting of Bureau of
Commercial Fisheries and Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife,
succeeded and replaced Fish and Wildlife Service of Department of the
Interior under provisions of Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956, as
originally provided in section 742b(a) and (d) of this title.
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies
of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of
the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950,
Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in
the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
Dogfish Sharks: Research To Control and Eradicate or To Discover
Commercial Uses
Pub. L. 85-887, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1710, directed Secretary of
the Interior to prosecute, for a period of not to exceed four years from
Sept. 2, 1958, investigations of the abundance and distribution of
dogfish sharks, experiments to develop control measures, and a vigorous
program for the elimination and eradication or development of economic
uses of dogfish shark populations.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 758b, 758d of this title.
