‘These fish are the canary in the goldmine’ – Irrigation body slams river management

A PEAK irrigation body representing more than 2000 irrigators in the Murray Valley claims overextraction of water on the Darling River contributed to the deaths of millions of fish near Menindee. Southern Riverina Irrigators chair Chris Brooks said long-term mismanagement “at the highest level” by state and federal bodies, on the back of one of […]