Discharge of Oil, Garbage Leads to Penalty

摘要

A FISHING COMPANY operating in and around American Samoa has found itself in a stinky situation. Yuh Fa Fishery (Vanuatu) Co. Ltd. was convicted and sentenced to pay a $2.5 million fine for maintaining false and incomplete records relating to the discharge of oil and garbage from the F/V Yuh Fa No. 201. According to the Department of Justice, the company admitted that its engineers failed to document the illegal dumping of oily bilge water into the South Pacific Ocean without the use of required pollution prevention equipment.