(a) For purposes of this section, the term “sport fish restoration and management projects” means projects designed for the restoration and management of all species of fish which have material value in connection with sports or recreation in the marine or fresh waters of the Virgin Islands, including:
(1) such research into problems of fish management and culture as may be necessary to efficient administration affecting fish resources;
(2) the acquisition of such facts as are necessary to guide and direct the regulation of fishing by law, including the extent of the fish population, the drain on the fish supply from fishing or natural causes, the necessity of legal regulation of fishing and the effects of any measures of regulation that are applied;
(3) the formulation and adoption of plans of restocking waters with food and game fishes according to natural areas or districts to which such plans are applicable, together with the acquisition of such facts as are necessary to the formulation, execution, and testing the efficacy of such plans;
(4) the selection, restoration, rehabilitation, and improvement of areas of water or land adaptable as hatching, feeding, resting, or breeding places for fish, including acquisition by purchase, condemnation, lease, or gift of such areas or estates or interests therein as are suitable therefore, and the construction thereon or therein of such works as may be necessary to make them available for such purposes, and such preliminary or incidental costs and expenses as may be incurred in and about such works; and
(5) such other activities as may be authorized pursuant to the Dingell-Johnson/Wallop-Breaux Act.
(b) The Commissioner of the Department of Planning and Natural Resources shall perform all acts as may be necessary to participate in the federal aid to Sport Fish Restoration programs and meet all the requirements established by the Secretary of the Interior.
(c) The Commissioner, through the Division of Fish and Wildlife, shall conduct and establish sport fish restoration projects as provided by the Dingell-Johnson/Wallop-Breaux Acts, 16 U.S.C. §§ 777-777k, and the federal regulations promulgated under that Act.
(d) The Commissioner may use federal aid funds granted under the Dingell-Johnson/Wallop-Breaux Acts only for the purposes of approved projects, and no funds accruing to the Department from license fees and other administrative paid by sport fishers, including any interest, dividend, or other income earned from the license fees and other administrative, may be diverted for any purpose other than the protection, propagation, investigation, and restoration of sport fish resources and the expenses of administering the sport fish program within the Department's Division of Fish and Wildlife, as provided for in section 181d and the Dingell-Johnson/Wallop-Breaux Act and regulations adopted pursuant under that Act.