Coast Guard Seizes Illegally Caught Halibut Near Homer, Alaska
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The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) announced that one of its law enforcement boarding teams seized illegally harvested fish near Homer, Alaska last week.
The incident was discovered by a Coast Guard Cutter Naushon boarding team when it found halibut aboard a commercial Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) halibut vessel that was not documented in the vessel’s logbook.
According to the USCG, the halibut was filleted in a way that made the size and number of fish illegally harvested impossible to determine.
The Naushon crew seized the illegal...
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