Menindee mass fish kill: thousands of carp dead amid water quality fears

Masses of dead carp at the Menindee main weir at Menindee, NSW, on 22 February. Photograph: Geoff Looney/The Guardian

Thousands of carp have died in the Menindee Main Weir in far west New South Wales, triggering a mass fish kill that ecologists worry could affect native species as water quality declines.

The NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) told Guardian Australia it had received reports of a fish death event in the Lower Darling-Baaka in Menindee.