Unalaska cleans up fish oil spill

A forklift punctured a connex filled with fish oil in Unalaska Thursday, spilling it across a shipyard. Fish oil is considered an environmental hazard, but far less damaging than crude oil. Some of the bright orange oil flowed into a storm drain and into the ocean. Resolve Marine stopped it from spreading more by plugging the drain with gravel and dirt.
Fish oil pours out of the punctured shipping container. (David Tonon/U.S. Coast Guard)A couple hundred gallons of the 5,700 gallon bla