To blame the fish kill on the drought is a cop-out ... The recent fish deaths in the Barwon-Darling river system at Menindee was a devastating sight. However, it is wrong to blame cotton growers for ...

Major fish kill events occur when large blooms of algae ... “Ecological evidence shows the Barwon-Darling River is not meant to dry out to disconnected pools—even during drought conditions.

Environmental agencies are warning there could be widespread blackwater events, fish kills and blue-green algae outbreaks across the Murray-Darling Basin ... and in the Barwon River between ...

An alarming fish kill on the Darling River at Menindee in outback New South Wales, Australia shows what is believed to be as many as a million dead fish. Menindee, a town of about 500 people ...

Residents criticised a decision by the Murray Darling Basin Authority to drain the Menindee Lakes in 2014 and 2017, to meet water demands downstream. Fish kills are defined by the NSW Department ...

In releasing an independent review into the Lower Darling fish kills today, Federal Water Minister ... class licences to protect low flows in the Barwon Darling into the future”.

The MDBA had earlier warned that ironically, fish kills would be a by-product of ... Border Rivers, Barwon – Darling, Lachlan, Upper Murray and Murrumbidgee rivers, and the Lower Darling ...

Locals say tonnes of two and three-year-old fish are pouring into the Darling River out of Lake Menindee ... Mr McCrabb said the risk of another major fish kill this summer was high, as the ...

Mass fish kills were observed in late February on the Darling-Baaka River, The Associated Press reported. Additionally, mass fish kills occurred on the river at Menindee during severe drought ...

As the scorching summer sun bears down on Wilcannia, the Darling River has a distinct ... some of which were installed after the last mass fish kill in March 2023, where millions of fish ...