About 300 mink were released during a break and enter at a mink farm on Jones Baseline in Guelph-Eramosa Township.

According to a release from Wellington County OPP, the mink were released from a barn on the property sometime between 10 p.m. Thursday and 4 a.m. Friday.

The OPP is asking anyone with information about the incident to come forward.

Const. Bob Bortolato of the OPP wrote in an email that the owners of the farm "were busy capturing" the mink Friday morning.