Congress urged to make F/V discharge exemption permanent before temporary law expires in December
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [The Clarion-Ledger] by Ledyard King - September 2, 2014
When commercial fishing vessels unload their hauls on deck, crews usually gut their catch and put it on ice for the trip back to shore.
Then they do something that could land them in trouble under a 6-year-old law: They hose down the decks, sending the bloody mix of guts and scales into the water.
The Clean Boating Act of 2008 requires vessels to test deck-water runoff for contaminants. They also must sample seawater that is circulated into live wells for crabs and lobsters and then discharged back into the ocean, gulf or bay...
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