‘The smell is next level’: millions of dead fish spanning kilometres of Darling-Baaka river begin to rot

A “wall of dead fish” spanning tens of kilometres is moving along a stretch of the Darling-Baaka river near the town of Menindee, with temperatures forecast to reach 41C in the area on Saturday.

“The smell is just next level,” resident Graeme McCrabb said. “Imagine the smell if you put a dead fish in your sink and let it rot for a few days – but we have millions of them.”