Silver Bay Seafoods has been fined USD 73,000 (EUR 64,050) for a number of violations of the Clean Water Act at its Metlakatla, Alaska facility.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the frozen seafood processor discharged untreated sanitary waste to the beach under its facility’s dock, failed to properly treat seafood processing waste, failed to conduct daily visual inspections, and exceeded the effluent limit for seafood processing waste residues.
As a result of its illegal discharges, which were discovered during a September 2015 inspection, the company caused routine foam buildup on the surface of the water near its facility, the EPA said.
Silver Bay’s Metlakatla facility processes herring, salmon, halibut, rockfish, sea cucumber, geoduck, and other shellfish and is permitted to discharge wate into Port Chester Bay. However, the fine is a result of violations of its Clean Water Act National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit.
In 2015, Silver Bay paid a USD 75,000 (EUR 65,770) civil penalty to the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation for alleged violations in the discharge of seafood waste at its Valdez location, according to KCAW.
Photo courtesy of Silver Bay Seafoods
