Daily Brief

St Marys Fish Sauce Cleanup

Some civic problems are measured in budgets. Others by whether one can safely hang out the laundry.
2026-07-30

Some civic problems are measured in budgets. Others by whether one can safely hang out the laundry.

For more than two decades, the people of St. Mary’s, Newfoundland, have lived beside an abandoned factory containing 110 vats of steadily fermenting fish sauce. This week, the first truckload of the remarkably persistent inheritance was finally carried away, beginning a cleanup expected to last several months.

At last, the air is changing.

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Source: https://apnews.com/article/canada-abandoned-factory-st-mary-94048cc119edf38393f1a337b4ff5023