BLAINE, Wash. (AP) - Authorities have indicted the owner and captain of a commercial fishing vessel for Clean Water Act and ship pollution violations.
The Justice Department says Bingham Fox and his son Randall Fox discharged and ordered other crewmembers to illegally discharge oil and other pollutants in to U.S. Waters near Blaine, Washington.
They allegedly discharged the pollutants from 2011 into 2013.
The indictment says Bingham Fox owned the Native Sun and, as part of its dockside maintenance, ordered crew members to discharge oil and other bilge wastes overboard into the harbor and adjoining shorelines of Blaine.
Documents say Randall Fox ordered crewmembers to discharge oil and bilge wastes overboard while on fishing trips.
The men are scheduled to appear in U.S. district court in Seattle next week.
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