A fish plant along Nova Scotia's South Shore went up in flames Saturday morning.

Liverpool Fire Chief Steven Parnell says at around 2:30 a.m., they were called to a structure fire at the Mersey Point Fish Products plant in Port Mouton. When fire crews arrived, the building was already engulfed in flames.

It took 60 fire fighters from five different departments nearly two hours to put out the blaze.

"The building is still standing but the inside is pretty much gutted out, there's not much left in it. It's just all machinery and stuff in there from the processing plant there that's all burnt," he said.

The fish plant has been in receivership for the past two months but a large amount of fish product was still in the freezers in the building.

Fire crews are still on the scene, monitoring for hotspots and the fire marshal will begin conducting its investigation tomorrow.