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A $50,000 fine has been levied against a Calmar hog farm after liquid hog manure spilled into a creek last year, killing “numerous” fish during the spawning season, Environment and Climate Change Canada reported Thursday.

The spill occurred into Conjuring Creek, which provides spawning habitat for the North Saskatchewan River upstream of Edmonton.

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Shooters Hill Livestock, Inc., represented by owner Simon Goodwin, pleaded guilty and was fined for allowing the deposit of a deleterious substance into water frequented by fish, an offence under the federal Fisheries Act, the environment ministry said in a news release.

The case was heard Nov. 25 in Leduc provincial court.

The spill was reported to provincial authorities on May 10, 2014. An inspector from the Natural Resources Conservation Board issued an order to stop the release. Federal enforcement officers who arrived at the scene “observed liquid hog manure entering the creek,” the news release said.