You Can Have Too Much,

of a good thing,

 many of us like fish sauce, especially people that live in Asia, but even here in Great Britain so many people love fish sauce, even though they do not know they are eating/drinking it, think Worcestershire sauce, made with fermented anchovies, in 1990, a Vietnamese immigrant opened the Atlantic Seafood Sauce factory near St. Mary’s, a small town in Canada’s Newfoundland, with the goal of producing a kind of fermented seafood sauce that is very popular in Vietnamese cuisine, things were off to a good start, but just 4 years down the line, the owner, a man named Sanh Go, started complaining that Canadian regulations were killing his business, in the year 2000, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency inspected the factory and concluded that the sauce was produced in unsanitary conditions, two years later, the Atlantic Seafood Sauce factory closed for good, but its giant vats of fermenting fish parts and seafood sauce have remained there ever since, causing a big stink, above photograph Zeshalyn Capindo/Unsplash,

for the past 17 years, the people of St. Mary’s, have had to put up with the pungent smell of fermented seafood sauce at an abandoned nearby factory, in the summer, the stench gets so bad that some residents bar their homes and leave to stay with their relative, because it’s so hard to breathe, “These past 10 years, it’s been getting worse each year because of the smell,” resident Juliette Lee told CBC. “And it’s now is also causing health problems, because you can’t breathe when it’s so pungent.” above photograph CBC/YouTube,

for the past 17 years, the vats of fermenting fish parts have been rotting away inside the closed Atlantic Seafood Sauce factory, so what to do? a few years ago, authorities found a private company willing to go into the abandoned factory and clean the 150 vats inside, however, they were stopped by environmental agencies after dumping several containers of potentially toxic materials into the ocean, still there is some good news, no rodents! representative of a cleanup company that considered taking up the project told St. Mary’s deputy mayor, Steve Ryan, that it was one of the worst sites they had ever encountered, “I think he told me he was almost 30 years in the business. And he was taken aback a little bit by there’s so much waste here and there’s no rodents… What he told me kind of scared me, He said: ‘Rodents know when something is toxic,'” Ryan recalled, the town of St. Mary’s has recently asked for financial assistance from the Department of Municipal Affairs and Environment, but a previous application has been rejected before, so they’re not getting their hopes up, one thing’s for sure though, the rotten sauce has to go soon, because it’s a serious health hazard, so you really can have too much of a good thing.