North Coast Fisheries Is Fined; Exec Gets Jail
One of Northern California’s largest seafood distributors was fined $85,000 and its top executive sentenced to jail time for failing to report groundfish that the company purchased from fishermen.
A federal court sentenced North Coast Fisheries Inc. to four years of probation and ordered its president, Michael Lucas, to serve one month in jail.
State and federal laws that target overfishing require distributors to submit landing receipts that let the government track how much fish is being brought ashore by fishermen.
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