Byrd stresses freshness everything is made in-house. His ten-year plan was suddenly a 3.5-year reality.ĭredge’s boat and farm to table menu highlights theNorthern Neck’s natural resources combined with savory island influences. With their encouragement he decided to open Dredge. He consulted mentors, friends, and family.
Then, unexpectedly, Byrd was approached to take over the Trick Dog space. He built a loyal clientele and several publications acknowledged his culinary talents with “Best Of” awards. Growing, Byrd catered events and launched a food truck. He began cooking oyster tacos beneath a tent at the Dog and Oyster vineyard. Two years later he established Byrd’s Seafood with a 10-year plan to open his own restaurant. He returned home in 2013.īyrd’s first job back was as a Trick Dog bartender. For five years he explored the island’s multicultural food influences. Like many locals, Byrd ventured away seeking excitement. He has always loved the exhilarating restaurant environment, saying, “It’s in my blood, it is what I was meant to do.” Always learning, Byrd climbed the hierarchy from busboy to chef. Growing up, he worked at many Northern Neck eateries. His stepfather exposed him to cooking and taught him to try everything once-to know whether it was worth eating again. It’s all about being local-with some Caribbean spice thrown in.īyrd’s love of food started in childhood. There, chef-owner Bryan Byrd celebrates his hometown’s culture and cuisine. Now in the Irvington space is Dredge restaurant. “The Court is satisfied that this penalty accounts for the harm involved, deters future violations, and represents an equitable application of the law,” Patricco wrote.The Trick Dog, with its metropolitan decor and menu, has strayed away. Patricco also included in the fine the value of the gold Poe pulled from the river, roughly $10,500. Ultimately, Patricco decided on a fine of $3,320 per violation for a total of about $139,500. Patricco, in a lengthy analysis of the potential fine, noted that suction-dredge gold mining is allowed on the South Fork of the Clearwater River, but that Poe repeatedly dredged without required permits. Poe said a fine of about $61,000 would be in line with the environmental impacts and would be enough to deter him from dredging in the river again without the required permits.
The Idaho Conservation League argued for a fine of $565,000. The maximum penalty Poe faced ranged from $37,500 to $60,000 per violation based on when the dredging occurred, adding up to nearly $2 million. That led to the remedial phase of the case that resulted the $150,000 fine issued to Poe on Wednesday. Army Corps of Engineers agreed that the operation of a suction dredge resulted in discharge of processed waste, requiring the permit. He said that even if his suction dredge did add pollutants, it would be considered dredged or fill material regulated under a different section of the Clean Water Act, also not requiring a specific type of permit.īut Chief U.S. Poe’s defense was to argue he didn’t need any type of Clean Water Act permit because his suction dredge didn’t add pollutants to the river. The Idaho Conservation League also said Poe encouraged unpermitted mining by other gold seekers in Idaho rivers. Critics say dredging can destroy fish spawning beds, and that discharged sediment can smother fish eggs.įederal and state agencies repeatedly notified Poe of the violations, but Poe denied being subject to the Clean Water Act, according to the lawsuit filed by the Idaho Conservation League. The waterway where Poe operated is designated critical habitat for federally protected steelhead, salmon and bull trout. Suction dredge miners use an underwater hose to suck up gravel and sort it for gold in a sluice box mounted on a watercraft. His attorneys, Constance Brooks of Fairfield and Woods, P.C., in Denver, Colorado, and Alan Schroeder of Schroeder Law in Boise, Idaho, also didn't respond to phone messages left by The Associated Press. Poe didn't return a phone message left for him on Thursday at the Coulterville, California-based American Mining Rights Association, where he serves as president. "This ruling, which represents one of the largest Clean Water Act fines ever levied in Idaho against an individual, should send a clear message to miners, or anyone, who refuses to follow the rules,” said Jonathan Oppenheimer of the Idaho Conservation League in a statement on Thursday. The Idaho Conservation League filed a citizen enforcement lawsuit in August 2018 against Poe, saying federal and state officials didn’t act to make sure dozens of dredge miners followed the law. The violations, according to court documents, took place in 2014, 20. Treasury following Poe's 42 violations over three years of gold dredging on the South Fork of the Clearwater River. Patricco ordered Poe to pay the $150,000 to the U.S.
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