{"data":{"id":"us/50-cfr-18.13","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"50 CFR 18.13","heading":"Prohibited uses, possession, transportation, and sales.","body":"Except as otherwise provided in the Act or these regulations, it is unlawful for:\n(a) Any person to use any port, harbor, or other place under the jurisdiction of the United States for any purpose in any way connected with a prohibited taking or any unlawful importation of any marine mammal or marine mammal products;\n(b) Any person to possess any marine mammal, or product therefrom, taken in violation of the Act or these regulations;\n(c) Any person to transport, purchase, sell, or offer to purchase or sell any marine mammal or marine mammal product; or\n(d) Any person subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to use in a commercial fishery, any means or method of fishing in contravention of regulations and limitations issued by the Secretary of Commerce for that fishery to achieve the purposes of this Act.","path":["Title 50—Wildlife and Fisheries","CHAPTER I—UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR","SUBCHAPTER B—TAKING, POSSESSION, TRANSPORTATION, SALE, PURCHASE, BARTER, EXPORTATION, AND IMPORTATION OF WILDLIFE AND PLANTS","PART 18—MARINE MAMMALS","Subpart B—Prohibitions"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-50.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:26:39Z","sha256":"4b9d2ac031a76ef6c6db829e91b0019d9a6f4c9da684b524abec85de29bdbfc1","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/50-cfr-18.12","next":"us/50-cfr-18.14"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}