A New Brunswick aquaculture company has been ordered to pay CAD 500,000 (USD 492,000; EUR 376,000)after pleading guilty to two charges in connection with the deaths of hundreds of lobsters in the Bay of Fundy from an illegal pesticide about three years ago.
The penalty against Kelly Cove Salmon Ltd. is the largest ever imposed in New Brunswick for environmental violations under the federal Fisheries Act, according to an Environment Canada official.
And “it’s in the top three fines in Canada,” said Robert Robichaud, regional operations manager for the environmental enforcement division in New Brunswick.
