§ 758a. Conduct of explorations and related work in Pacific Ocean

Statutory text

The Secretary of Commerce is authorized and directed to conduct such fishing explorations and such necessary related work as oceanographical, biological, technological, statistical, and economic studies to insure maximum development and utilization of the high seas fishery resources of the United States and its island possessions in the tropical and subtropical Pacific Ocean and intervening areas as may be consistent with developing and sustaining such fishery resources at maximum levels of production in perpetuity and to provide for the best possible utilization thereof.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1947
Pub. L. 80–451 § 2 · 61 Stat. 726
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 758a
Aug. 4, 1947, ch. 451, § 2, 61 Stat. 726
Source evidence
Code source credit
Aug. 4, 1947, ch. 451, § 2, 61 Stat. 726
Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. The Secretary of the Interior, through the Fish and Wildlife Service of the Department of the Interior, is authorized and hereby directed to conduct such fishing explorations and such necessary related work as oceanographical, biological, technological, statistical, and economic studies to insure maximum development and utilization of the high seas fishery resources of the Territories and island possessions of the United States in the tropical and subtropical Pacific Ocean and intervening areas as may be consistent with developing and sustaining such fishery resources at maximum levels of production in perpetuity and to provide for the best possible utilization thereof.
1960
Hawaii Omnibus Act
Pub. L. 86–624 § 11(a) · 74 Stat. 411
Substituted · 16 U.S.C. § 758a
Pub. L. 86–624 substituted “the United States and its island possessions” for “the Territories and island possessions of the United States”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 86–624 substituted “the United States and its island possessions” for “the Territories and island possessions of the United States”.
Enacted provision · exact public law section
(a) by striking out the words “the Territories and island possessions of the United States” and inserting in lieu thereof the words “the United States and its island possessions” in sections 1 and 2;

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1960—Pub. L. 86–624 substituted “the United States and its island possessions” for “the Territories and island possessions of the United States”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Transfer of Functions

United States Fish and Wildlife Service, consisting of Bureau of Commercial Fisheries and Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, succeeded and replaced Fish and Wildlife Service of Department of the Interior under provisions of Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956, as originally provided in section 742b(a) and (d) of this title.

Dogfish Sharks: Research To Control and Eradicate or To Discover Commercial Uses

Pub. L. 85–887, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1710, directed Secretary of the Interior to prosecute, for a period of not to exceed four years from Sept. 2, 1958, investigations of the abundance and distribution of dogfish sharks, experiments to develop control measures, and a vigorous program for the elimination and eradication or development of economic uses of dogfish shark populations.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

“Secretary of Commerce” substituted for “Secretary of the Interior, through the United States Fish and Wildlife Service of the Department of the Interior,” in view of: creation of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Department of Commerce and Office of Administrator of such Administration; abolition of Bureau of Commercial Fisheries in Department of the Interior and Office of Director of such Bureau; transfers of functions, including functions formerly vested by law in Secretary of the Interior or Department of the Interior which were administered through Bureau of Commercial Fisheries or were primarily related to such Bureau, exclusive of certain enumerated functions with respect to Great Lakes fishery research, Missouri River Reservoir research, Gulf Breeze Biological Laboratory, and Trans-Alaska pipeline investigations; and transfer of marine sport fish program of Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife by Reorg. Plan No. 4 of 1970, eff. Oct. 3, 1970, 35 F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

Credits

1947–1970 · 3 acts

1947Aug. 4, 1947, ch. 451, § 2, 61 Stat. 726
1960Pub. L. 86–624, § 11(a), July 12, 1960, 74 Stat. 412
19701970 Reorg. Plan No. 4, eff. Oct. 3, 1970, 35 F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090.

Show as published

(Aug. 4, 1947, ch. 451, § 2, 61 Stat. 726; Pub. L. 86–624, § 11(a), July 12, 1960, 74 Stat. 412; 1970 Reorg. Plan No. 4, eff. Oct. 3, 1970, 35 F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090.)