Silver Bay Seafoods has been fined $75,000 for alleged pollution violations resulting in the illegal discharge of 2.8 million pounds of seafood waste at the processor’s facilities in Valdez, Alaska. The settlement was announced on June 15 by Mike Solter, compliance program manager for the Division of Water within the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation. […]
Terms for a plea agreement were reached between the Federal government and the German company AML Ship Management, operators of the City of Tokyo and the Chief Engineer of the vessel, Nicolas Sassin, for violations of the Clean Water Act in 2014 it was announced by the Justice Department. It was in August of 2014 […]
Two California men pleaded guilty to illegal fishing charges in Sitka District Court on Tuesday for charges incurred late last month prior to the trolling season opening up on July 1. It was on June 30th that Alaska Wildlife Troopers contacted the captain and crew of the fishing vessel “Chief Joseph” while it lay at […]
ANCHORAGE: The Alaska Public Offices Commission (APOC) has fined Dan Sullivan for using the Mayor’s office to send out a press release on his Lieutenant Governor campaign. In issuing the fine, APOC rejected Sullivan’s request that he be treated as if the law didn’t apply to him. “Contrary to what Dan Sullivan may think, he […]