The Coast Guard destroyed his ship without questioning.Now, a federal agency wants him to pay a bill of $8,500
Tom Puglas, 76, said that he had just spent thousands of dollars repairing the engine of an old second-hand fishing boat when he received a call from a friend in the fall of 2017, telling him that his fishing boat was already Walked away from the old boat. port.
He said that he later learned through a friend that his ship and all its equipment had been destroyed by the Canadian Coast Guard and sent him a $8,500 bill to cover the cost.
Puglas said: “I never got in touch with the Coast Guard. I didn’t know until I was about to repair my boat.” said Puglas, the mayor of Vancouver, who lives in the Campbell River in Glasgow, British Columbia, said his boat It is 200 km from the hotel in Port McNeill Port.