500m exclusion zone set up around sunken barge giving off smell of rotten eggs

A sunken barge off Portree Harbour has been giving off the smell of rotten eggs

AN exclusion zone has been set up around a sunken barge in a salmon farm after it started releasing potentially toxic gasses.

The 500m radius around the sunken vessel, which was carrying fish food, near Portree Harbour in Skye was set up amid reports of the smell of rotten eggs at the site.