The state Department of Environmental Quality has fined Pacific Coast Seafoods $2,150 for discharging too much seafood-processing waste from North Tongue Point into the Columbia River.

In December 2016 and January 2017, the company discharged wastewater that exceeded its allowed daily limits of oil, grease and other potentially harmful waste. If not properly managed, the contaminants can threaten fish and other aquatic life.

The Port of Astoria was recently fined for wastewater monitoring and treatment violations at North Tongue Point when it leased the property. The agency has canceled its lease, allowing boatbuilder Hyak Maritime to purchase the property from Washington Development Co.

Pacific Coast Seafoods is operating out of a former seaplane hangar at North Tongue Point while rebuilding a plant in Warrenton that burned down in 2013.