(AGENPARL) – gio 28 settembre 2023 Issued: Sep 28, 2023 (1:27pm EDT)
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EPA penalizes American Seafoods Company almost $1M for Clean Water Act
violations off Oregon, Washington coasts
EPA penalizes American Seafoods Company almost $1M for Clean Water Act
violations off Oregon, Washington coasts
SEATTLE (Sept. 28, 2023) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
penalized American Seafoods Company LLC of Seattle and the owners of its
fish-processing vessels nearly $1 million for significant violations of
the Clean Water Act committed while harvesting and processing fish in the
Pacific Ocean off the Oregon and Washington coast. 
EPA cited the companies for hundreds of violations including discharging waste
in the protected Heceta/Stonewall Banks complex along the Oregon coast,
failure to monitor its discharges and missing or inaccurate information in
required annual reports. 
Discharge of seafood processing waste in prohibited areas and within the
100-meter depth contour of Washington and Oregon exacerbates already existing
low-oxygen conditions which negatively impact most fishes, crabs and other
marine life.  
EPA evaluated the compliance of the Oregon and Washington seafood processing
industry and found that American Seafoods Company and the owners of its
vessels stood apart from the other Oregon and Washington offshore fish
processors in the number and severity of violations. The vessels are the
American Dynasty, American Triumph, Northern Eagle, Northern Jaeger and Ocean
Rover. 
In an Administrative Order on Consent effective Aug. 17, EPA requires the
companies to conduct corporate-wide, systemic improvements to ensure
compliance with its permits. In separate Consent Agreements, EPA also requires
the companies pay $999,000 in penalties. 
“In amassing hundreds of violations from illegal discharges to sloppy and
even non-existent record-keeping American Seafoods Company demonstrated a
clear disregard for the fragile and valuable resources that sustain its
business,” said Ed Kowalski, Director of EPA’s Enforcement and Compliance
Assurance Division in Seattle. “When issuing a permit, EPA confers to the
permit holder the responsibility to protect our nation’s resources. We
expect the company-wide, systematic overhaul of its operations will re-focus
American Seafoods Company on the true value of its permit, the importance of
tracking compliance with the permit, and the resources that permit entrusts it
with protecting.” 
Additional details can be found in the following documents: 
Consent Agreement and Final Order: American Seafood & American Dynasty  
Consent Agreement and Final Order: American Seafood & American Triumph 
Consent Agreement and Final Order: American Seafood & Northern Eagle
Consent Agreement and Final Order: American Seafood & Northern Jaeger
Consent Agreement and Final Order: American Seafood & Ocean Rover
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