Tag Archives: Fish Waste
Silver Bay Seafoods agrees to pay fine for illegal dumping in the Naknek River
Sitka-based Silver Bay Seafoods earlier this month agreed to pay a fine of $467,469 for illegal dumping at its Naknek River facility in Bristol Bay. The company has also agreed to address violations of its state permit to discharge pollutants. The state Department of Environmental Conservation said in a press release that Silver Bay “repeatedly discharged significantly more fish waste into the Naknek River than permitted” in 2017 and 2020. State inspectors also found numerous violations at the facility during a scheduled inspection last year, like discharging bloody water. >click to read< 12:11
Reuse of Fish Waste Yields Organic Liquid Fertilizer
With an expanding spiny dogfish catch, AMT BioProducts Inc. is beginning a $685,000 expansion from its current operations at 33 Cape St. into an adjacent 9,100-square-foot plant that is expected to double the company’s production capacity. But AMT BioProducts doesn’t package fish, it processes fish waste into commercial-grade organic liquid fertilizer. Also, an interesting read about the dogfish “stock” and assessment. Read the rest here 10:42
