Prof Hugh Durrant-Whyte calls for overhaul of environmental regulation to prevent further fish deaths
“Difficult decisions will need to be made. These are essentially social and not scientific in nature,” he said.in May found no mature native Murray cod in about 300km of the lower Darling-Baaka. While most of the fish that died in the March fish kills were bony herring, which breed rapidly in flood conditions, the impact on native species was devastating.
Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup The immediate cause of the March catastrophe was hypoxia resulting from low dissolved oxygen in the water column.
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