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16 U.S.C. § 5107 — Financial assistance

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16 U.S.C. § 5107 — Financial assistance

The Secretary and the Secretary of the Interior may provide financial assistance to the Commission and to the States to carry out their respective responsibilities under this chapter, including— (1) the preparation, implementation, and enforcement of coastal fishery management plans; and (2) State activities that are specifically required within such plans.

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16 U.S.C. § 5101 — Findings and purpose

**(a) Findings** The Congress finds the following: (1) Coastal fishery resources that migrate, or are widely distributed, across the jurisdictional boundaries of two or more of the Atlantic States and of the Federal Government are of substantial commercial and recreational importance and economic benefit to the Atlantic coastal region and the Nation. (2) Increased fishing pressure, environmental pollution, and the loss and alteration of habitat have reduced severely certain Atlantic coastal fishery resources. (3) Because no single governmental entity has exclusive management authority for Atlantic coastal fishery resources, harvesting of such resources is frequently subject to disparate, inconsistent, and intermittent State and Federal regulation that has been detrimental to the conservation and sustainable use of such resources and to the interests of fishermen and the Nation as a whole. (4) The responsibility for managing Atlantic coastal fisheries rests with the States, which carry out a cooperative program of fishery oversight and management through the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission. It is the responsibility of the Federal Government to support such cooperative interstate management of coastal fishery resources. (5) The failure by one or more Atlantic States to fully implement a coastal fishery management plan can affect the status of Atlantic coastal fisheries, and can discourage other States from fully implementing coastal fishery management plans. (6) It is in the national interest to provide for more effective Atlantic State fishery resource conservation and management. **(b) Purpose** The purpose of this chapter is to support and encourage the development, implementation, and enforcement of effective interstate conservation and management o

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16 U.S.C. § 5107 — Financial assistance

Page 2531 TITLE 16—CONSERVATION § 5107a inspection in connection with the enforcement of this chapter; (6) forcibly assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, or interfere with any such author- ized officer in the conduct of any search or in- spection under this chapter; (7) resist a lawful arrest for any act prohib- ited by this section; (8) ship, transport, offer for sale, sell, pur- chase, import, or have custody, control, or possession of, any fish taken or retained in violation of this chapter; or (9) interfere with, delay, or prevent, by any means, the apprehension or arrest of another person, knowing that such other person has committed any act prohibited by this section. (f) Civil and criminal penalties (1) Any person who commits any act that is unlawful under subsection (e) shall be liable to the United States for a civil penalty as provided by section 308 of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1858). (2) Any person who commits an act prohibited by paragraph (5), (6), (7), or (9) of subsection (e) is guilty of an offense punishable as provided by section 309(a)(1) and (b) of the Magnuson-Ste- vens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1859(a)(1) and (b)). (g) Civil forfeitures (1) Any vessel (including its gear, equipment, appurtenances, stores, and cargo) used, and any fish (or the fair market value thereof) taken or retained, in any manner, in connection with, or as the result of, the commission of any act that is unlawful under subsection (e), shall be subject to forfeiture to the United States as provided in section 310 of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1860). (2) Any fish seized pursuant to this chapter may be disposed of pursuan

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