EPA fines largest at-sea Alaska pollock processor nearly $1M for Clean Water Act violations

EPA fines largest at-sea Alaska pollock processor nearly $1M for Clean Water Act violations

An American Seafoods Company vessel in the Port of Dutch Harbor in June 2020. (Hope McKenney/KUCB) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has fined one of Alaska’s biggest fishing companies nearly $1 million for Clean Water Act violations. American Seafoods Company is the world’s largest at-sea processor of Alaska pollock and holds the largest allocation of wild Pacific hake. The company operates a fleet of seven vessels in the North Pacific O…