The Coast Guard, troopers and NOAA Enforcement are investigating the incident.
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Judge rejects Bering Sea seafood companies’ request to block penalties for alleged violations of federal shipping law
The penalties were for using a miniature Canadian railway to satisfy a provision in a federal law called the Jones Act.
A new $350 million Bering Sea fish fight could hinge on a miniature Canadian railroad
The quickly escalating saga involves hundreds of millions of dollars in fines, a miniature Canadian railway and Donald Trump’s personal lawyer and it stems from the way that one of Alaska’s biggest fishing companies, American Seafoods, is using an exemption in the federal law that typically allows only U.S. ships to move cargo between U.S. ports.
A fishing boat docked in Dutch Harbor with 85 COVID-19 cases
More than two-thirds of the crew of a huge factory fishing vessel docked in the Aleutian fishing port of Dutch Harbor has tested positive for COVID-19, local authorities announced Sunday.
After 100 cases in June, Seattle seafood company reports 6 more crew have COVID-19 in Dutch Harbor
The American Triumph is a 285-foot factory trawler, with an onboard processing plant. It had been at sea since June 27, fishing both offshore from Washington and Oregon and then moving to Alaska to fish for pollock in the Bering Sea.
After fears, crew of American Seafoods vessel tests negative for COVID-19 in Unalaska
The arrival of the 255-foot boat had generated concern among Alaskans after more than 100 asymptomatic crew members aboard three of the company’s other factory trawlers tested positive for the virus in recent weeks.
American Seafoods has had more than 100 COVID-19 cases on fishing vessels scheduled to come to Alaska this summer
If companies can put appropriate quarantine procedures in place before boarding, fishing crews stand a good chance of remaining uninfected with COVID-19, largely because of vessels’ isolation at sea.
86 crew members on an American Seafoods trawler test positive for COVID-19
The factory trawler was most recently in Bellingham, WA, and has returned to the Port of Seattle where it is currently under lockdown.