The Department of Justice and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that Pescanova USA, a Coral Gables-based seafood company, was sentenced today on 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 Marine Living Resources Convention Act and the Lacey Act. The firm was fined $10,000 in addition to forfeiting the seafood valued at $1.7 million. The firm pled guilty of the charges in August 2010.