Tacoma, home to Commencement Bay where an oil spill led to a fine for a Seafood processing company. (Photo by George Rose/Getty Images)
(Photo by George Rose/Getty Images)
Trident Seafoods Corporation has been fined $25,000 for a fire that led to a hydraulic oil spill in Commencement Bay.
According to The Tacoma News-Tribune (TNT), the spill came from a fire that destroyed a seafood processing ship on Feb. 17, 2021.
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The state Department of Ecology (DOE) levied the fine. The DOE said the reasons for the fine were spilling oil, negligence, and not properly reporting the emergency.
TNT
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