American Seafoods will prosecute Greenpeace demonstrators for trespassing/reckless endangerment; Company refutes Greenpeace's campaign for factory trawler ban.SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 16, 1996--American Seafoods Inc. will prosecute To follow through; to commence and continue an action or judicial proceeding to its ultimate conclusion. To proceed against a defendant by charging that person with a crime and bringing him or her to trial. the Greenpeace demonstrators who boarded their vessels at Pier 91 in the Port of Seattle The Port of Seattle is a port district that runs Seattle's seaport and airport. Its creation was approved by the voters of King County, Washington, on September 5, 1911. It is run by a five-member commission. The commissioners' terms run four years. , Friday. Charges of trespassing and reckless reckless adj. in both negligence and criminal cases, careless to the point of being heedless of the consequences ("grossly" negligent). Most commonly this refers to the traffic misdemeanor "reckless driving. endangerment will be filed. "To discourage these types of activities in the future, we must prosecute to the fullest extent of the law," said Bernt Bodal, president of American Seafoods. "This incident is a tremendous waste of resources for both our company and the taxpayers of Seattle. Greenpeace's actions today pulled policeman off the street and may create an accident that could result in damage to the waters of Puget Sound Puget Sound (py  `jĕt), arm of the Pacific Ocean, NW Wash., connected with the Pacific by Juan de Fuca Strait, entered through the Admiralty Inlet and extending in two arms c. . "It is unfortunate that the demonstrators have chosen our company as its target to assist in the fundraising efforts of Greenpeace's $100 million dollar European-based corporation. Publicity stunts A publicity stunt is a planned event designed to attract the public's attention to the promoters or their causes. Publicity stunts can be professionally organised or set up by amateurs. Amateur stunts can be trivial or deathly serious. like today are designed to raise money for Greenpeace, not resolve issues with private business," Bodal added. American Seafoods strongly refutes Greenpeace's claims that groundfish resources are being damaged. "American Seafoods has a very low by-catch rate (3%) and a 0% discard rate in the North Pacific pollock fisheries fisheries. From earliest times and in practically all countries, fisheries have been of industrial and commercial importance. In the large N Atlantic fishing grounds off Newfoundland and Labrador, for example, European and North American fishing fleets have long compared to a 25% by-catch rate of world-wide commercial fisheries. Greenpeace's claims are false and misleading to the public." By-catch is the non-targeted fish species that are caught during a fishing season. Discard involves fish that are prohibited by law to be retained. CONTACT: Jan Jacobs, 206/448-0300 |
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