Alys Hoyland, with the Surfrider Foundation's Pacific Rim chapter in Tofino, said similar spills, including the loss of 35 containers from the Hanjin Seattle freighter in 2016, led to no significant policy changes.

"[After the Kingston spill], we were pretty much in exactly the same position as we had been in after the Hanjin spill,'' she said.

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