Ucluelet Harbour Seafood Fined $25,000 for Polluting Barkley Sound
A seafood processing company in Ucluelet, BC, has been slapped with $25,000 in fines for repeatedly pumping harmful contaminants like ammonia, oil, grease and other fish offal well above permitted levels into the ocean over a two-year period.
The violations by Ucluelet Harbour Seafood (UHS) — owned by the large, US-based Pacific Seafood Group — are a “major contravention” with a mix of pollutants significantly above discharge limits in 33 instances between May 2023 and August 2024, said theBC Ministry of Environment decision...
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