The Norwegian fertilizer giant Yara has been ordered to pay a fine of 2 million Norwegian kroner (about 330,000 U.S. dollars) for the 2012 oil spill at Porsgrunn, a southern Norwegian city in the Telemark county.

The oil spill smeared 2.5 km shoreline, three boats and five piers, and resulted in the death of five birds, according to the writ signed prosecutor Svein Folkestad, the Norwegian news agency NTB reported on Monday.

In the incident, about 13 tons of fuel oil spilled into Frierfjord in November 2012.

The company has decided to accept the fine although it believes it is too high.

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