For more than two decades, residents of the small Canadian town of St. Mary's in Newfoundland and Labrador have lived with an overwhelming smell caused by an abandoned fish sauce factory. The site, once operated by the Atlantic Seafood Sauce Company, was left with more than 330,000 gallons (1.25 million litres) of fermenting fish sauce stored in 110 tanks after it shut down in the early 2000s. As the contents continued to decompose over the years, the foul odour became a constant nuisance for the community. Now, after years of delays and funding challenges, a large-scale cleanup operation has finally begun, bringing hope that one of the town's longest-running environmental problems will soon come to an end.
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