Sexual Harassment Conviction Underscores NOAA Fisheries Observer Safety Commitment
A message from Acting NOAA Fisheries Assistant Administrator Paul Doremus broke down how a recent conviction involving the sexual harassment of a federal fishery observer shows the agency’s commitment to observer safety.
Doremus noted that on May 3, Galen Burrell, a commercial fishing deckhand was sentenced in the Eastern District of North Carolina to six months in prison after pleading guilty to sexually harassing a federal fishery observer.
The prosecution was the result of work between NOAA’s Office of Law Enforcement, the Office of General Counsel, the Observer Program, and the...
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