Pollock industry confronts crushing Jones Act fines

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Itty-bitty railroad: Alaska's pollock industry is locked in a high-stakes battle with the federal government.The industry, with Bering Sea factory trawl operator American Seafoods at the center of it, revealed with a Sept. 2 press release that U.S. Customs and Border Protection had issued some $350 million in penalties for violation of a shipping law, the JonesAct, in moving frozen pollock from Dutch Harbor to the eastern United States.The industry filed for a temporary restraining order barring CBP from imposing further penalties - penalties the industry said had crippled seafood shipment to the East Coast.