States District Court for the District of the 
Northern Mariana Islands. 
(3) CONSTRUCTION.—Each violation shall be a 
separate offense and the offense is deemed to have 
been committed not only in the district where the 
violation first occurred, but also in any other district 
authorized by law. Any offense not committed in any 
district is subject to the venue provisions of section 
3238 of title 18, United States Code. 
(d) CONFIDENTIALITY.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Any information submitted 
to the Secretary in compliance with any requirement 
under this title, and information submitted under 
any requirement of this title that may be necessary 
to implement the Convention, including information 
submitted before the date of the enactment of this 
Act, shall be confidential and may not be disclosed, 
except— 
(A) to a Federal employee who is respon-
sible for administering, implementing, or en-
forcing this title; 
(B) to the Commission, in accordance with 
requirements in the North Pacific Fisheries 
Convention and decisions of the Commission, 
and, insofar as possible, in accordance with an
agreement with the Commission that prevents 
public disclosure of the identity or business of 
any person; 
(C) to State, Council, or marine fisheries 
commission employees pursuant to an agree-
ment with the Secretary that prevents public 
disclosure of the identity or business of any per-
son; 
(D) when required by court order; or 
(E) when the Secretary has obtained writ-
ten authorization from the person submitting 
such information to release such information to 
another person for a reason not otherwise pro-
vided for in this paragraph, and such release 
does not violate other requirements of this title. 
(2) USE OF INFORMATION.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in 
subparagraph (B), the Secretary shall promul-
gate regulations regarding the procedures the 
Secretary considers necessary to preserve the 
confidentiality of information submitted under 
this title. 
(B) EXCEPTION.—The Secretary may re-
lease or make public information submitted 
under this title if the information is in any ag-
gregate or summary form that does not directly 
or indirectly disclose the identity or business of 
any person. 
(3) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this 
subsection shall be interpreted or construed to pre-
vent the use for conservation and management pur-
poses by the Secretary of any information submitted 
under this title. 
SEC. 106. PROHIBITED ACTS. 
It is unlawful for any person— 
(1) to violate this title or any regulation or per-
mit issued under this title; 
(2) to use any fishing vessel to engage in fish-
ing activities without, or after the revocation or dur-
ing the period of suspension of, an applicable permit 
issued pursuant to this title; 
(3) to refuse to permit any officer authorized to 
enforce 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 any regulation, 
permit, or the North Pacific Fisheries Convention; 
(4) to assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimi-
date, or interfere with any such authorized officer in 
the conduct of any search, investigation, or inspec-
tion in connection with the enforcement of this title 
or any regulation, permit, or the North Pacific Fish-
eries Convention; 
(5) to resist a lawful arrest for any act prohib-
ited by this title or any regulation promulgated or 
permit issued under this title; 
(6) to ship, transport, offer for sale, sell, pur-
chase, import, export, or have custody, control, or 
possession of, any fisheries resources taken or re-
tained in violation of this title or any regulation or 
permit referred to in paragraph (1) or (2); 
(7) 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; 
(8) 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 op-
timum 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; 
(9) to assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimi-
date, sexually harass, bribe, or interfere with any ob-
server on a vessel under this title, or any data col-
lector employed by or under contract to any person 
to carry out responsibilities under this title; 
(10) to engage in fishing activities in violation 
of any regulation adopted pursuant to this title; 
(11) to fail to make, keep, or furnish any catch 
returns, statistical records, or other reports required 
by regulations adopted pursuant to this title to be 
made, kept, or furnished; 
(12) to fail to stop a vessel upon being hailed 
and instructed to stop by a duly authorized official 
of the United States; 
(13) to import, in violation of any regulation 
adopted pursuant to this title, any fisheries re-
sources in any form of those species subject to regu-
lation pursuant to a recommendation, resolution, or 
decision of the Commission, or any fisheries re-
sources in any form not under regulation but under 
investigation by the Commission, during the period 
such fisheries resources have been denied entry in 
accordance with this title; 
(14) to make or submit any false record, ac-
count, or label for, or any false identification of, any 
fisheries resources that have been, or are intended to 
be imported, exported, transported, sold, offered for
sale, purchased, or received in interstate or foreign 
commerce; or 
(15) to refuse to authorize and accept boarding 
by a duly authorized inspector pursuant to proce-
dures adopted by the Commission for the boarding 
and inspection of fishing vessels in the Convention 
Area. 
SEC. 107. COOPERATION IN CARRYING OUT CONVENTION. 
(a) FEDERAL AND STATE AGENCIES; PRIVATE INSTI-
TUTIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS.—The Secretary may co-
operate with any Federal agency, any public or private in-
stitution or organization within the United States or 
abroad, and, through the Secretary of State, a duly au-
thorized official of the government of any party to the 
North Pacific Fisheries Convention, in carrying out re-
sponsibilities under this title. 
(b) SCIENTIFIC AND OTHER PROGRAMS; FACILITIES 
AND PERSONNEL.—Each Federal agency may, upon the 
request of the Secretary, cooperate in the conduct of sci-
entific and other programs and furnish facilities and per-
sonnel for the purpose of assisting the Commission in car-
rying out its duties under the North Pacific Fisheries Con-
vention. 
(c) SANCTIONED FISHING OPERATIONS AND BIO-
LOGICAL EXPERIMENTS.—Nothing in this title, or in the