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Environment
Kathryn Magann

Emergency operation to deal with millions of dead fish

The mass fish kill-off near Menindee is an environmental threat that needs to be cleared urgently. (Samara Anderson/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

NSW Police have established an emergency operations centre at Menindee to co-ordinate a multi-agency effort to clean up millions of dead fish.

The fish deaths have been attributed to hypoxic blackwater, a naturally occurring phenomenon that causes extremely low dissolved oxygen levels, police said in a statement on Sunday.

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