St. Mary's, Newfoundland Finally Rid of Decades-Old Rotten Fish Sauce

A small Canadian town is breathing a sigh of relief as a years-long cleanup operation begins to remove a massive, pungent cache of abandoned fish sauce.

ST. MARY'S, Newfoundland — The persistent, nauseating odor that has plagued the small community of St. Mary's, Newfoundland, for two decades is finally being addressed. Cleanup crews have officially begun the arduous process of removing a massive stockpile of rotting fish sauce from an abandoned processing plant, marking the end of a long-standing environmental and public nuisance. The pungent situation began 20 years ago when the plant, which had been processing fish, ceased operations, leaving behind significant quantities of product that eventually spoiled. For years, the town has dealt…