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The 'Alder' accidentally discharged about 500 gallons of diesel fuel 30 miles offshore of Fort Bragg, California, on March 15, 2024. The buoy tender was on its way to Humboldt Bay omn the orning while the vessel was about 30 miles offshore from the town of Fort Bragg. Coast Guard officials swere investigating and evaluating potential impacts to sensitive sites, but did not expect the shoreline to be affected.

The San Francisco-based 'Alder' returned to its home port on Nov 29, 2023, along with the 'Terrell Horne' and an HC-130 Hercules aircraft after having recently completed the first high-seas boardings and inspections, in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, under a newly adopted conservation and management measure to monitor and inspect fishing and supply vessel operations at-sea in the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization (SPRFMO) Convention Area. The crew of the 'Alder' performed many new operations that took them south of the equator, where they would participate in SPRFMO inspections, conducting boardings and overflights within the SPRFMO Convention Area on the high seas off the coast of Peru. This operation was significant as it was timed to implement newly adopted rules in the SPRFMO Convention Area, which comprises nearly a quarter of the Earth’s high seas. The SPRFMO Commission consisted of 17 members from Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Oceania, as well as two cooperating non-contracting parties. The 'Alder' also conducted counter narcotics operations, trained two crew members for aerial drone missions launched from the cutter, and sailed with four small boats attached to maintain maximum operational capability during the patrol. The crew also hosted numerous high- level officials while in Paita and Lima, Peru. The 'Alder' participated in the GALAPEX 2023, a recurring joint and multinational exercise hosted by Ecuador and executed in the vicinity of the Galapagos Islands. The crew conducted communications exercises, practiced counter-narcotics boarding scenarios, and hosted observers from Peru, Ecuador, and Brazil. GALAPEX culminated with full-scale exercises focused on a coordinated multinational response to counter IUU fishing. At the conclusion of the exercise, the Coast Guard patrolled south to focus on high seas boarding inspections off the coast of Peru.