Sec. 207. Prohibited acts
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It is unlawful for any person— to violate any provision of this title or any regulation or permit issued under this title; to use any fishing vessel to engage in fishing without, or after the revocation or during the period of suspension of, an applicable permit issued under this title; to refuse to permit any officer authorized to enforce the provisions of this title to board a fishing vessel subject to such person’s control for the purposes of conducting any search, investigation, or inspection in connection with the enforcement of this title or the South Pacific Fisheries Convention; to assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, or interfere with any such authorized officer in the conduct of any search, investigation, or inspection in connection with the enforcement of this title or the South Pacific Fisheries Convention; to resist a lawful arrest for any act prohibited by this title or any regulation promulgated or permit issued under this title; to ship, transport, offer for sale, sell, purchase, import, export, or have custody, control, or possession of any fisheries resources if the person knew or should have known in the exercise of due care that the fisheries resources were taken or retained in violation of this title or any regulation or permit referred to in paragraph
(1)or paragraph (2); to 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; to submit to the Secretary false information (including false information regarding the capacity and extent to which a United States fish processor, on an annual basis, will process a portion of the optimum yield of a fishery that will be harvested by fishing vessels of the United States) regarding any matter that the Secretary is considering in the course of carrying out this title if the person knew or should have known in the exercise of due care that the information was false; to assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, sexually harass, bribe, or interfere with any observer on a vessel under this title, or any data collector employed by or under contract to any person to carry out responsibilities under this title; to engage in fishing in violation of any regulation adopted under this title; to fail to make, keep, or furnish any catch returns, statistical records, or other reports required to be made, kept, or furnished under this title; to fail to stop a vessel upon being hailed and instructed to stop by a duly authorized official of the United States; to import, in violation of any regulation promulgated under this title, any fishery resources in any form of those species subject to regulation pursuant to a recommendation, resolution, or decision of the Commission, or any fishery resources in any form not under regulation but under investigation by the Commission, during the period the fishery resources have been denied entry in accordance with the provisions of this title; to make or submit any false record, account, or label for, or any false identification of, any fishery resources which have been, or are intended to be imported, exported, transported, sold, offered for sale, purchased, or received in interstate or foreign commerce; or to refuse to authorize and accept boarding by a duly authorized inspector pursuant to procedures adopted by the Commission for the boarding and inspection of fishing vessels in the Convention Area.