Rotting fish sauce being removed from plant after decades of stench

Workers have begun removing thousands of gallons of rotting fish sauce from a Newfoundland plant that was abandoned in the early 2000s.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The townspeople of St. Mary's can breathe a sigh of relief. They are finally getting rid of the foul smell of rotten fish that has for years — when the wind blows their way — wafted over their tiny community in Canada 's easternmost province.

In Newfoundland, 20-year-old smelly sludge will finally be removed.

Decades of fighting the smell from a rotting fish sauce plant in the Newfoundland and Labrador community of St. Mary's have finally proved successful, as cleanup crews began work on Tuesday.

There were clear signs of victory today in a Newfoundland town’s decades-long fight to have vats of reeking, rotting fish sauce emptied out from a long-abandoned factory on its shoreline.