On May 20, 2019, the Consent Decree between U.S. Department of Justice and Trident Seafoods
Corporation at its subsidiaries Royal Viking, Inc. and Golden Dawn, LLC was entered by the US
District Court in the Western District of Washington. Trident Seafoods Corporation is a seafoods
processing company headquartered in Seattle, Washington that operates a fleet of seafood catching and
processing vessels throughout the Alaskan fisheries. Between 2009 and 2016, Trident violated several
regulations promulgated under Title VI of the Clean Air Act (Protection of Stratospheric Ozone).
Defendants own and operate five factory processor/freighter vessels and nearly 30 catcher and tender
vessels that operate in Alaska. In addition, Trident owns and operates 10 land-based processing plants
in Alaska and seven land-based processing plants in Washington and Oregon. Within these vessels and
facilities, Trident uses ozone-depleting substances (ODS) as refrigerants, i.e. chlorofluorocarbons, or
CFCs, and hydrochlorofluorocarbons, or HCFCs, in its commercial and industrial process refrigeration
appliances. The size of these appliances ranges from less than 50 pounds of refrigerant to greater than
5,000 pounds of refrigerant. The stratospheric ozone layer protects the earth by blocking harmful
ultraviolet (UV-A and UV-B) radiation emitted by the sun. Releases of Class I and Class II substances
(CFCs and HCFCs) cause the ozone layer to deteriorate at a rate faster than it can be repl