The Abandoned Fish Sauce Terrorizing a Small Canadian Town

Take capelin, a small silvery fish in the smelt family. Now add salt. Then throw those two ingredients in 110 vats, each of them about 10 feet tall, and let them sit in a defunct factory for over two decades. The resulting stench might haunt an entire community, as it has the people of St.…
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A small Canadian town is grappling with a decades-old fish sauce left to ferment in a closed factory, creating a powerful odor that disrupts daily life. Residents are now facing the unusual challenge of dealing with the consequences of this abandoned culinary experiment.

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