The Latest Breaking News from Menindee

How did the latest mass fish kill happen? How does it differ from previous events and how can we stop it happening again?

Barkandji people say they are tired of fighting for the health of the river after millions of fish died in a hypoxic blackwater event

Specialist crews are being sent to Menindee in outback NSW to remove dead fish from the Darling-Bakaa after the biggest mass in living memory.

Millions of dead fish float on the surface of the river. Native bony herring and introduced young carp, as well as a few mature Murray cod and golden perch. History is repeating on the Darling River at Menindee. This new fish kill is even worse than the enormous 2018–2019 fish…

Government agencies are mobilising at Menindee in outback NSW to co-ordinate the response to enormous clusters of dead fish in the Darling-Baaka River.

An emergency response centre, headed by NSW Police, has been put into action in the state's far west to coordinate the clean-up of the worst mass kill ever to hit the Darling River in Menindee.

Millions of fish have washed up dead in southeastern Australia in a die-off that authorities and scientists say is caused by floods and hot weather

Politicians are calling for the urgent removal of the millions of dead fish clogging the waterways of the Darling-Baaka River near Menindee.

Government agencies are mobilising at Menindee in outback NSW to co-ordinate the response to enormous clusters of dead fish in the Darling-Baaka River.

Authorities have confirmed the overall scale and size of this mass fish kill eclipses similar events in 2018 and 2019.

Authorities blame low oxygen levels made worse by receding flood waters as locals say latest event much more severe than previously