Alaska – Icicle Seafoods Agrees to pay $900,000 to Resolve EPA Clean Water Act Complaint

Icicle Seafoods, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Evening Star, Inc., have agreed to spend nearly $2 million to resolve NPDES permit violations by the seafood processing vessel, M/V Northern Victor, off Unalaska Island, Alaska. Several violations were observed during an inspection conducted in 2003. Following the inspection, Icicle made significant improvements aboard the vessel to remedy the violations. However, the companies failed to comply with one major provision of the permit, which required the cleanup of a historic seafood waste pile created by the vessels discharges prior to 1999.

After the Department of Justice filed suit against Icicle and Evening Star in 2006, the companies undertook the removal of the historic waste pile, which had created a one-acre dead zone on the Alaskan seafloor. They have already spent approximately $1.1 million cleaning up the waste pile. Contact: Cara Steiner-Riley, 206-553-1142; Margo Young, 206-553-1287.