Silver Bay settles enforcement action for $18,428

This federal report to the North Pacific Fishery Management Council includes this enforcement action, among others:

Plant operator Silver Bay Seafoods LLC was charged under the Magnuson‐Stevens Act for exceeding the applicable Rockfish Program processing cap for Pacific cod by 24,849 pounds, a 25.9 percent overage. A $20,475.58 amended notice of violation and assessment was issued. The case settled for $18,428.

Silver Bay Seafoods cited over late fish tickets

From the Alaska State Troopers:

Location: Ketchikan
Type: Fish tickets
On 11/12/14 Alaska Wildlife Troopers, Ketchikan Post, cited Silver Bay Seafoods for 13 counts of failure to submit commercial fish tickets on time to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. A mandatory court date was set for Craig District Court.

Silver Bay Seafoods cited over late fish tickets

From the Alaska State Troopers:

Location: Sitka
Type: Fish tickets
On 2/21/14 Silver Bay Seafoods in Sitka was cited after an investigation revealed the company had failed to submit several fish tickets within seven days as required by regulation. Silver Bay has a mandatory court appearance in Sitka.

Silver Bay Seafoods fined after guilty plea

From the Alaska State Troopers:

Location: Sitka
Type: Conviction
On 11/15/13 Silver Bay Seafoods LLC pled guilty in Sitka District Court to one count of possessing undersized commercial Tanner crab. Silver Bay was fined $16,000 with $8,000 suspended, placed on probation for one year and ordered to pay $8,090 in restitution. The charge stemmed from a February investigation in which Tanner crab were measured on a company-contracted tender vessel. The vessel was found to have a high percentage of undersized crab, estimated at approximately 3,000 pounds, in one of several holding tanks onboard.

Plant workers spend night on Craig mountain

From the Alaska State Troopers:

Location: Klawock Post
Type: Search and rescue
On 7/20/10 at 0009 hours, Alaska State Troopers received a report from the plant manager of Silver Bay Seafoods that nine employees had not returned from a hike up Sunnahae Mountain in Craig. A large group of hikers had started up the Sunnahae trail, but the group split at approximately 2,000 feet. One group headed back down the mountain and the second group headed towards the helicopter landing pad at the top of the mountain. The second group consisted of nine hikers identified as Robert Mensch from Ghana; Rustum Sharpov, 20, from Russia; Azamat Aipov, 23, from Kazakhstan; Milosz Szezpanak, 20, from Poland; and Mykailo Kustuzov, 21, Zadym Markov, 19, Andrii Smoliazov, 20, Mykola Butov, 20, and Artur Mylmek, 20, all from Ukraine. This second group of hikers decided to stay on the mountain due to the failing light and wait until morning. At 0726 hours all hikers were located and brought safely down the mountain with no injuries to report.