Menindee fish kill: another mass death on Darling River 'worse than last time’

A third fish kill has occurred near Menindee on the Darling River overnight after temperatures plummeted following days of hot weather.

The new fish kill is in the same location as the last one
 on the Darling river, above the weir at Menindee in NSW.

The latest fish kill follows an incident on 6 and 7 January in which hundreds of thousands of native fish, including Murray cod, golden perch and bony bream died around the Menindee weir.

There was also another mass kill before Christmas.

“This is likely worse than the last time,” said local Graeme McCrabb, who on Monday morning was down at the water’s edge at the back of the township, above Weir 32.

Read the story from The Guardian by Anne Davies - “Menindee fish kill: another mass death on Darling River 'worse than last time’.”