Seafood Importer Pleads Guilty to Illegal Importation of Toothfish

The Department of Justice and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced thatPescanovaUSA, a Coral Gables-based seafood company, pled guilty today to charges related to the attempted import into the United States of approximately 96,984 kilograms of frozen toothfish (Dissostichus spp.) from Argentina, in violation of the Antarctic Act.