Sec. 501. Automatic identification system requirements
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It is the sense of Congress that automatic identification systems, originally conceived for collision avoidance, are the best available tool to track spatio-temporal fishing efforts and gear deployment in the exclusive economic zone of the United States and on the high seas in order to manage shared use of the ocean, improve fisheries and natural resource management, and deter and interdict illegal, unreported, or unregulated fishing and associated human trafficking, including forced labor and oppressive child labor.
Section 70114(a)(1) of title 46, United States Code, is amended— by inserting in the United States exclusive economic zone, or on the high seas, after States, ; by redesignating subparagraph
(D)as subparagraph (E); and by inserting after subparagraph
(C)the following: A fishing vessel, fish processing vessel, and fish tender vessel of more than 50 feet overall in length. . Section 70114 of title 46, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: The Secretary shall make data collected by the Coast Guard Nationwide Automatic Identification System available to the public in archived form, and to governments and government-sponsored entities upon request and approval pursuant to Commandant Instruction 5230.80 and International Telecommunications Union Recommendation ITU–R M.1371–3. . There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary for fiscal year 2022, $5,000,000, to remain available until expended, to purchase automatic identification systems for fishing vessels, fish processing vessels, fish tender vessels more than 50 feet in length, as described under this title and the amendments made by this title.