Copenhagen: Around 96,000 salmon farming is believed to have died when leaking in the nearest tank sending 15,000 liters (4,000 gallons) chlorine into a fjord in the norwegian Arctic.
Roger Pedersen, a spokesman for Agricultural Company Salmon Grieg Seafood, said the leak was happening at one of the fish slaughterhouses in the city of Alta and the fish was in the cage waiting nearby at the time.
“We connect this to chlorine leakage,” said Pedersen to Norway Broadcasting NRK, adding the company now to handle dead fish “in a responsible manner and is investigating why the leak happened.” Chlorine is used to disinfect water after massacre.
On Twitter, the police in North Norway said that “a small number of salmon was dead” and that the liquid leaked had flowed to the Atlantic Ocean.
Police spokesman Stein Hugo Joergensen told NRK that there was no danger of toxic chlorine gas on land.
The causes of leakage, it is still investigated.
Alta sits 175 kilometers (109 miles) northeast of Tromse, the largest city in Norwegian Arctic.
Grieg Seafood described himself as one of the leading salmon agricultural companies in the world.
It has agriculture in Norway, Canada and from the British Shetland Islands.
His headquarters were in Bergen, Norway.