Coast Guard keeping eye on fishing boat aground off Marrowstone Island

NORDLAND – Coast Guard pollution investigators were dispatched Monday to evaluate whether a 70-foot fishing vessel grounded in Kilisut Harbor off Marrowstone Island was leaking fuel or oil.

“At this time it is leaking no fuel,” Jeff Tollinger, spokesman with the Coast Guard Public Affairs office in Seattle, said Monday afternoon.

A small oil sheen spotted coming from the vessel Saturday has dissipated, Tollinger said.

The owner of the vessel Cape Flattery, Matt Willing has hired a salvage company.

Authorities don’t know Willing’s location of residence.

“He is required to submit a salvage plan for [state Department of Ecology] and Coast Guard approval,” said Tollinger.

The Coast Guard spokesman said it was not known when the vessel would be pulled from the sandbar on which it came to rest after being blown out of Mystery Bay and into Kilisut Harbor.

The vessel came to rest Thursday and listed to the point that it began to take on water.

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