; (4) carrying out the first United States Coast Guard IUU fishing patrol under the auspices of the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization, in August 2022 off the exclusive economic zone of the Galápagos archipelago, during which the Coast Guard conducted high seas boardings and inspections of vessels suspected of engaging in IUU fishing; (5) issuing sanctions on December 9, 2022, against entities based in the People’s Republic of China that are implicated in global activities related to IUU fishing, including activities in Latin America and the Caribbean; and (6) proposing that Chinese flagged vessels suspected of engaging in IUU fishing that refuse to allow on sea boarding and inspection be included in the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management organization’s IUU vessel list: Now, therefore, be it