KUCB News (2010-06-29) UNALASKA, AK (kucb) - Highland Light Seafoods, a Seattle-based seafood company, has been fined $135,000 by the Environmental Protection Agency for violating the Clean Water Act in Alaska waters. An EPA inspection in 2008 revealed that the company's catcher-processor the Westward Wind had been in violation of environmental standards for 5 years. The Westward Wind did not comply with its National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit, and discarded more seafood waste than it was permitted to by law. In 2006, the Westward Wind dumped waste near the Pribilof Islands without a permit. Chris Gebhardt, a compliance officer with the EPA, says that the....... http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kial/news.newsmain/article/1/0/1669367/Local.News/Highland.Light.Seafood.fined.by.the.EPA
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