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Chief Engineer Roberto Cayabyab Penaflor admitted to violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships for knowingly discharging untreated oily bilge water directly from the tanker into the sea, federal prosecutors said.

All that cargo coming and going has inevitably brought nonnative species: stowaways slithering in the holds of ships or sloshing around in the bilge water.

Today, we know that bilge water in ballast is a place where mosquitoes breed.

Some suggest bilge water from passing freighters could be aggravating its spread in Turks and Caicos.

The Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships requires oily bilge water to be treated before being released into the sea.