The sight of more than a million fish floating belly up on the Darling River at Menindee has thrown doubt over the management of the Murray-Darling Basin.
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| Piles a dead fish have been removed from the river at Menindee. |
Experts say irrigators are taking too much water from the system, and the Murray-Darling Basin Authority has mismanaged water flows.
But New South Wales Water Minister Niall Blair says drought is to blame.
With more fish likely to die, here's what we know about the mass deaths and what some independent experts have had to say.
Read the story from ABC News by Nick Kilvert - “‘Drought, climate change and mismanagement': What experts think caused the death of a million Menindee fish.”

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