Authorities Australia began to remove a huge amount dead fishestimated to number in the millions by some media outlets, was discovered last week in the Darling River, near the town of Menindee, about 1,083 kilometers west of Sydney.
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A statement from the New South Wales Police, where the river is located, said operations to remove fish They will last several days, they involve a brigade of fire and rescue service and a specialized company hired for this work.
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fishwhose deaths are attributed to low oxygen levels in the water, as well as abnormal heat, will be thrown out of the river, where they now form huge blankets over the water.
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Deputy Commissioner Brett Greentree said that affected residents can contact social services and assured that the incident with fish According to Essential Water’s analysis, this did not affect the drinking water supply in the area.
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“Essential Water test results have confirmed that the quality of drinking water has not been affected and is safe to drink,” police said in a statement following Greentree’s death. fish.
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In the digital journal The Conversation, University of New South Wales biology professor Richard Kingsford pointed out that climate change is a factor in what happened to fishas well as diverting water for irrigation and closing the dam in the upper basin.
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The remote town of Menindi, with a population of about 500, was hit by a similar event in the southern summer of 2018-2019, when at least one million fish they died during one of the worst droughts in decades that hit eastern Australia.
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This mass death fish was blamed for alleged water management issues in the Darling River, where the Darling and Murray River Basin Authority ordered the Menindee Lakes to be drained in 2014 and 2017 to meet the water needs of other residents and farmers in the region.
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“Yes, death fish It has always been like this, but not on such a scale. The fundamental reason that fish Loved ones keep dying, it’s because there isn’t enough water,” Kingsford said.
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Population fish in the river has risen sharply due to recent flooding, but now they are dying from “low oxygen levels in the water (hypoxia) as the water level drops,” local authorities said.
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