---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 7809"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "7809"
heading: "Exclusive economic zone notification"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/7809"
units:
  - "Chapter 97 — Convention on the Conservation and Management of High Seas Fishery Resources in the South Pacific"
---

# §7809. Exclusive economic zone notification


Masters of commercial [fishing vessels](/usc/16/7801.md?p=8) of countries [fishing](/usc/16/7801.md?p=7) under the management authority of the South Pacific [Fisheries](/usc/16/1383a.md?p=o-1) Convention that do not carry vessel monitoring [systems](/usc/16/668ee.md?p=14) capable of communicating with United States enforcement authorities shall, before or as soon as reasonably possible after, entering and transiting the [exclusive economic zone](/usc/16/7801.md?p=5) bounded by the [Convention Area](/usc/16/7801.md?p=3), ensure that all [fishing](/usc/16/7801.md?p=7) gear on [board](/usc/16/1447a.md?p=1) the vessel is stowed below deck or otherwise removed from the place it is normally used for [fishing](/usc/16/7801.md?p=7) activities and placed where it is not readily available for [fishing](/usc/16/7801.md?p=7) activities.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 114–327, title II, § 209, Dec. 16, 2016, 130 Stat. 1993.)