Fishing Boat Owner, Operator To Pay $1M Over Oily Bilge Water Discharges

Mealey's (December 17, 2019, 3:52 PM EST) -- BOSTON — The company that operates the F/V Enterprise and F/V Pacific Capes fishing vessels and the company that owns them pleaded guilty on Dec. 16 in federal court in Massachusetts to two counts of violating the Clean Water Act for negligently discharging oily bilge water into waterways of the United States and agreed to pay $1 million as a civil penalty (United States v. Sea Harvest Inc., et al., No. 19cr10400, D. Mass.)....