Cargo ship operator Transmar Shipping Co, S.A. pleaded guilty Friday in Oakland to violations that involved dumping oil residue, sludge and other substances into the ocean, federal prosecutors said. Senior U.S. District Judge D. Lowell Jensen sentenced the Greece-based company to pay a $750,000 fine plus a $100,000 community service payment, and ordered it to [...]
Lobster sniffing dogs? That is awesome. Before you go, know the regulations and make sure to follow them when you’re out on the water.
Lobster hunters diving for dinner will have plenty of company on South Florida waters during the two-day miniseason Wednesday and Thursday – hundreds of federal, state and local law enforcement officers. Officers [...]
Cargo ship engineer Yavuz Mogultay faces up to six years in federal prison after pleading guilty in a case involving oil dumping. Mogultay was a second assistant engineer onboard the cargo ship MV Avenue Star when he used bypass hoses to shortcut the vessel’s pollution prevention equipment and discharge oil waste from the engine room, [...]
A Tennessee man on probation for a dozen hunting violations has been sent to jail for nearly two years after he was caught fishing under a false name in neighboring Georgia. The Tennessean newspaper reported Thursday that Georgia wildlife agents were tipped by their Tennessee counterparts that 31-year-old Kurt Wesley Ellis was fishing for trout [...]
NOAA’s Office of Law Enforcement (OLE) and the U.S. Coast Guard continue to actively enforce the law in federal waters that have been closed to fishing to balance economic and public health needs as a result of the BP oil spill. Since the first closure was announced on May 2, the agencies have worked together [...]
Commercial fishing is a dangerous business even without the kind of violence and destruction being reported here. The ad hoc task force outlined at the end of the article is probably one of the better and more proactive methods for keeping the peace and countering this type of localized unrest. BZ to the USCG assets [...]
A second ship possibly carrying spiders among its cargo, the M/V Stx Alpha, departed from the same South Korean port as the M/V Altavia, and was en route Guam, but has been diverted to Busan Port for fumigation to ensure that no spiders are on board the vessel. The estimated time of arrival for [...]
Here is one of those calls that comes in where no one volunteers to go. You wouldn’t need to have arachnophobia to want to steer clear of this mess. I’m interested to see how the shipping company resolves it. Maybe a team of kitted up Orkin men with serious pesticide? I can honestly say I [...]
A bench warrant was issued Friday for one of the suspects in an illegal dumping at a South Elgin, Illinois recycling company, sources said. An Hong, 32, of Elburn failed to appear at a status hearing Friday before Judge James C. Hallock. The judge issued a warrant for his arrest for failure to appear in [...]
A Japanese court on Wednesday convicted an anti-whaling activist from New Zealand of assault and obstructing Japan’s whaling fleet in the Antarctic. But his sentence was suspended, meaning he will not be jailed.
Peter Bethune, a member of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, boarded a Japanese whaling ship from a Jet Ski in the southern Antarctic [...]
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Bolinas fisherman Josh Churchman, named as a volunteer of the year in 2009 for his work with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, now finds himself facing a hefty $35,786 fine from the agency that has accused him of fishing where he wasn’t supposed to. He will plead his case on July [...]
WIVB4 – The Coast Guard says it seized 30,000 pounds of brown shrimp after being tipped that boats were trawling an area closed because of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The Lady Monica and La Borrachita were boarded Sunday about 35 nautical miles south of Terrebonne Bay.
The Coast Guard says La Borrachita held about [...]
