Icicle Settles Over Crab Violations


Thursday, February 23 2012
Icicle Seafoods will be paying a fine of $615,000 for handling more crab than it was allowed.
In 2004, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration came down on Icicle for exceeding its brown king crab processing cap by 3.8 million pounds. The crab was processed at Adak Fisheries, which was then controlled by Icicle. The fine was initially set at $3.4 million, but was reduced substantially to just a fifth of that amount.
The settlement was agreed upon last month.
Meanwhile, an ongoing settlement with Peter Pan over crab processing has also been wrapped up. Peter Pan will be paying $525,000 for going over their crab cap by 4.2 million pounds. The initial fine was set at $4.4 million.