Sec. 9. Technology innovation task force to combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing
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The President shall establish a technology innovation task force (in this Act referred to as the IUU Tech Force ) to combat IUU fishing. The IUU Tech Force shall be led by the Director of the National Maritime Intelligence-Integration Office, who shall coordinate with the National Ocean Counsel Committee on IUU Fishing and Seafood Fraud. The IUU Tech Force shall be composed of not fewer than one senior-level representative from each of the following Federal agencies: The Department of the Navy.
The Department of Justice. The Department of the Interior. The Department of Agriculture. The Department of Commerce. The Department of Labor. The Department of Health and Human Services. The department in which the Coast Guard is operating. The Office of Management and Budget. The Council on Environmental Quality. The Office of Science and Technology Policy. The Office of the United States Trade Representative. The United States Agency for International Development. The Department of State.
The National Science Foundation. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology of the National Science and Technology Council. The IUU Tech Force shall— cultivate public-private partnerships, including with Federal agencies, academic institutions, nongovernmental organizations, technology companies, and international partners, to develop and deploy advanced technologies to identify and combat IUU fishing; identify opportunities to declassify and make more publicly available imagery from the Department of Defense and the department in which the Coast Guard is operating and other information that can be used to identify IUU fishing or be used in enforcement actions against violators; and coordinate the application of existing innovative technologies and development of emerging technologies to address— IUU fishing; and associated forced labor, human trafficking, and other illicit activities.
In this section: The term innovative technologies includes the following: Improved satellite imagery and tracking. Advanced electronic monitoring equipment. Vessel location data. Improved genetic, molecular, or other biological methods of tracking sources of seafood. Electronic catch documentation and traceability. Such other technologies as the Administrator considers appropriate. The term IUU fishing — means illegal fishing, unreported fishing, or unregulated fishing (as such terms are defined in paragraph 3 of the International Plan of Action to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing, adopted at the 24th Session of the Committee on Fisheries of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome on March 2, 2001); and includes fishing activities conducted in contravention of applicable laws and regulations related to labor conditions.