NOAA’s Office of Law Enforcement announced yesterday that the owners of the Zen Restaurant in Juneau, Alaska, will pay a civil penalty of $18,000 over the next 12 months for illegally purchasing subsistence-harvested Pacific halibut in 2010, according to a settlement agreement signed on February 23.
The STOCK Act, Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, has come to halt after having gained momentum and barreling through both the House and the Senate earlier.
