{"id":710003,"date":"2026-06-02T12:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T12:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/710003\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T12:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T12:40:09","slug":"aquaculture-company-fined-in-connection-with-workers-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/710003\/","title":{"rendered":"Aquaculture Company Fined in Connection with Worker\u2019s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/st-albans.png\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Aquaculture Company Fined in Connection with Worker's Death\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo via Facebook<\/p>\n<p>An aquaculture company has been fined in connection with the death of a fish farm worker in St. Alban\u2019s in July of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The worker drowned after falling from a barge, <a href=\"https:\/\/vocm.com\/2025\/02\/22\/263477\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">resulting in nine charges against Nova Fish Farms Inc. <\/a>and another nine charges against Ocean Trout Canada. <\/p>\n<p>A supervisor also faced a single charge under Occupational Health and Safety. <\/p>\n<p>Nova Fish Farms pleaded guilty to all nine charges in court yesterday, resulting in a fine of $75,000 plus a 30 per cent victim surcharge for a total of $97,500.<\/p>\n<p>The charges against Ocean Trout Canada and the supervisor were withdrawn. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Photo via Facebook An aquaculture company has been fined in connection with the death of a fish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-710003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}